US Patent Issued to Hinge Health on July 29 for "Method and system for monocular depth estimation of persons" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,983, issued on July 29, was assigned to Hinge Health Inc. (San Francisco).

"Method and system for monocular depth estimation of persons" was invented by Colin Brown (Montreal) and Louis Harbour (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for estimating the 3D joint location of skeleton joints from an image segment of an object and a 2D joint heatmaps comprising 2D locations of skeleton joints on the image segment. This includes applying the image segment and 2D joint heatmaps to a convolutional neural network containing at least one 3D convolutional layer block, wherein the 2D resolution is reduced at ea...