ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,119, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method, apparatus, and computer program product for estimating monocular depth within an image using observed image elements" was invented by Jani Kappi (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for estimating depth within a two dimensional image. Methods may include: receiving a two dimensional image of an environment captured by an image sensor; extracting pixel coordinates of pixels associated with the one or more objects within the environment from the two dimensional image; correlating the one or more objects within th...