US Patent Issued to NCR Voyix on Feb. 3 for "Depth image interpolation for multiview item recognition" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,827, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).

"Depth image interpolation for multiview item recognition" was invented by Christian Lee McDaniel (Atlanta), Stefan Bjelcevic (Roswell, Ga.), Layton Christopher Hayes (Rome, Ga.) and Brent Vance Zucker (Roswell, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Depth camera settings are adjusted based on characteristics of items presented in a scan zone and based on depth values returned for the items in depth images. Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images and depth images are captured of items within the scan zone. Quality of the depth values are accessed. Bad depth values are replaced with goo...