Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'Monocular Depth And Optical Flow Estimation Using Diffusion Models' Filed by Google Llc

MUMBAI, India, Sept. 12 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517080843 A) filed by Google Llc, Mountain View, U.S.A., on Aug. 26, for 'monocular depth and optical flow estimation using diffusion models.'

Inventor(s) include Saxena, Saurabh; Norouzi, Mohammad; Fleet, David; Kar, Abhishek; Herrmann, Charles; Hur, Junhwa; and Sun, Deqing.

The application for the patent was published on Sept. 12, under issue no. 37/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Improved methods are provided for generating, via a noise-diffusion iterative process, depth maps or optical flow maps from input images. Also provided are improved methods for training the machine learning model(s) emplo...