ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,577, issued on March 25, was assigned to HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method for training depth estimation model, method for estimating depth, and electronic device" was invented by Yu-Hsuan Chien (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 training a depth estimation model implemented in an electronic device includes obtaining a first image pair from a training data set; inputting the first left image into the depth estimation model, and obtaining a disparity map; adding the first left image and the disparity map, and obtaining a second right im...