US Patent Issued to Niantic Spatial on Dec. 2 for "Image depth prediction with wavelet decomposition" (British, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,413, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Niantic Spatial Inc. (San Francisco).

"Image depth prediction with wavelet decomposition" was invented by MichaeL Lalaina Ramamonjisoa (Paris), Michael David Firman (London), James Watson (London) and Daniyar Turmukhambetov (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A depth prediction model for predicting a depth map from an input image is disclosed. The depth prediction model leverages wavelet decomposition to minimize computations. The depth prediction model comprises a plurality of encoding layers, a coarse prediction layer, a plurality of decoding layers, and a plurality of inverse discrete wavel...