US Patent Issued to INNOPEAK TECHNOLOGY on Aug. 19 for "Depth-based see-through prevention in image fusion" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,021, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to INNOPEAK TECHNOLOGY INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Depth-based see-through prevention in image fusion" was invented by Jinglin Shen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kim C. Ng (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jinsong Liao (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Chiuman Ho (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to image fusion. A computer system obtains a near infrared (NIR) image and an RGB image of a scene. A first NIR image layer is generated from the NIR image. A first RGB image layer and a second RGB image layer are generated from the RGB image. The first NIR image layer and first RGB image layer...