US Patent Issued to Apple on March 25 for "Method and device for multi-camera hole filling" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,493, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method and device for multi-camera hole filling" was invented by Bertrand Nepveu (Montreal), Vincent Chapdelaine-Couture (Carignan, Canada) and Emmanuel Piuze-Phaneuf (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method includes: obtaining a first image of an environment from a first image sensor associated with first intrinsic parameters; performing a warping operation on the first image according to perspective offset values to generate a warped first image in order to account for perspective differences between the first image sensor and a user of t...