US Patent Issued to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY on May 27 for "Depth estimation method and apparatus using learning model" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,180, issued on May 27, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea) and THE TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY (Indianapolis).

"Depth estimation method and apparatus using learning model" was invented by Soon-heung Jung (Daejeon, South Korea), Jeongil Seo (Daejeon, South Korea), David Crandall (Bloomington, Ind.) and Md Alimoor Reza (Bloomington, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A depth estimation method and apparatus using a learning model are disclosed. A depth information estimation method may include identifying a plurality of image data, generating feature maps of the plurality of i...