US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on July 8 for "Apparatus for generating a depth map of a monocular camera image and a method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,289, issued on July 8, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for generating a depth map of a monocular camera image and a method thereof" was invented by Jin Sol Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jin Ho Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Jang Yoon Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and a method remove noise from a point cloud and generate a depth map of a monocular camera image. The apparatus includes a camera sensor that photographs a monocular camera image. The apparatus also includes a lidar sensor that generates the point cloud correspond...