US Patent Issued to HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY on April 1 for "Method for obtaining depth images for improved driving safety and electronic device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,122, issued on April 1, was assigned to HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method for obtaining depth images for improved driving safety and electronic device" was invented by Chih-Te Lu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chieh Lee (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chin-Pin Kuo (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for obtaining depth images for improved driving safety applied in an electronic device processes first and immediately-following second images which have been captured and processes each to obtain two sets of predicted depth maps. The electronic device determines a transformation matrix of a camera ...