US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 30 for "Computer vision based wide-area snow/water level estimation using disparity map" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,780, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Computer vision based wide-area snow/water level estimation using disparity map" was invented by Zhuocheng Jiang (Plainsboro, N.J.), Yue Tian (Princeton, N.J.), Yangmin Ding (East Brunswick, N.J.), Sarper Ozharar (Pennington, N.J.) and Ting Wang (West Windsor, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer vision based, wide-area snow/water level estimation methods using disparity maps. In one embodiment our method provides rich depth-information using a stereo camera and image processing. Scene images at normal and snow/rain weather conditions are obtained by a double-lens ...