US Patent Issued to Google on May 27 for "Active stereo depth prediction based on coarse matching" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,825, issued on May 27, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Active stereo depth prediction based on coarse matching" was invented by Sameh Khamis (Mountain View, Calif.), Yinda Zhang (Mountain View, Calif.), Christoph Rhemann (Mountain View, Calif.), Julien Valentin (Mountain View, Calif.), Adarsh Kowdle (San Francisco), Vladimir Tankovich (Renton, Wash.), Michael Schoenberg (Mountain View, Calif.), Shahram Izadi (Tiburon, Calif.), Thomas Funkhouser (Mountain View, Calif.) and Sean Fanello (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device estimates a depth map of an environment based on matchi...