ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,030, issued on July 1, was assigned to CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY, BEIJING (Beijing).

"Monocular video-based three-dimensional reconstruction and depth prediction method and system for pipeline" was invented by Ce Li (Beijing), Qin Han (Beijing), Feng Yang (Beijing) and Suping Peng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monocular video-based three-dimensional reconstruction and depth prediction method and system for a pipeline are provided, relating to the technical field of deep learning and image processing. The method includes the following steps: performing feature extraction and matching and incremental reconstr...