ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,564, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Single image camera parameter estimation" was invented by Yannick Hold-Geoffroy (San Jose, Calif.), Jianming Zhang (Campbell, Calif.), Dominique Piche-Meunier (Quebec, Canada) and Jean-Francois Lalonde (Quebec, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, a set of camera parameters associated with an input image are determined based on a disparity map and a signed defocus map. For example, a disparity model generates the disparity map indicating disparity values associated with pixels of the input image and a defocus model generates a signed defocus...