ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,778, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Depth estimation using a neural network" was invented by Abhishek Kar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hossam Isack (Oakland, Calif.), Adarsh Prakash Murthy Kowdle (San Francisco), Aveek Purohit (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Dmitry Medvedev (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, a method for depth estimation includes receiving image data from a sensor system, generating, by a neural network, a first depth map based on the image data, where the first depth map has a first scale, obtaining depth estimates associated with the image data, and tran...