ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,685, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Self-calibration for hybrid camera arrays" was invented by Christiaan Varekamp (Veldhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calibrating a camera pose in a hybrid camera array comprising two or more color sensors and one or more depth sensors. The method comprises obtaining a depth map for each of the depth sensors, obtaining a set of images from the color sensors and generating up to scale camera poses for the color sensors and an up to scale point cloud using the set of images. A scaling of the up to scale camera poses ...