US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 9 for "Mono to stereo image conversion and adjustment for viewing on a spatial computer" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,133, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Mono to stereo image conversion and adjustment for viewing on a spatial computer" was invented by Stephan R Richter (Neubiberg, Germany), Amael Delaunoy (Bellevue, Wash.), Keming Cao (San Diego), Ozgur Oyman (Palo Alto, Calif.), Tobias Rick (Mountain View, Calif.) and Vladlen Koltun (Jackson, Wyo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that convert a mono image to a stereo image pair. For example, a process may obtain an input image including appearance values at pixel positions. The input imag...