ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,849, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Adeia Imaging LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for hybrid depth regularization" was invented by Ankit Jain (Mountain View, Calif.), Priyam Chatterjee (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Kartik Venkataraman (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for hybrid depth regularization in accordance with various embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a depth sensing system comprises a plurality of cameras; a processor; and a memory containing an image processing application. The image processing application may direct the processor ...