ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,836, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Depth segmentation in multi-view videos" was invented by Christiaan Varekamp (Veldhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of depth segmentation for the generation of a multi-view video data. The method comprises obtaining a plurality of source view images and source view depth maps representative of a 3D scene from a plurality of sensors. Foreground objects in the 3D scene are segmented from the source view images and/or the source view depth maps. One or more patches are then generated for each source view image and sourc...