US Patent Issued to Google on Jan. 20 for "System and methods for depth estimation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,788, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System and methods for depth estimation" was invented by Orly Liba (Mountain View, Calif.), Rahul Garg (Mountain View, Calif.), Neal Wadhwa (Mountain View, Calif.), Jon Barron (Mountain View, Calif.) and Hayato Ikoma (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a computing device. The computing device is configured to perform a set of functions. The set of functions includes receiving an image, wherein the image comprises a two-dimensional array of data. The set of functions includes extracting, by a two-dimensional neural network,...