US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 1 for "Depth guided lift, shoot, splat for converting camera images to bird's eye view domain" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,888, issued on July 1, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Depth guided lift, shoot, splat for converting camera images to bird's eye view domain" was invented by Ahmed Kamel Sadek (San Diego) and Soyeb Noormohammed Nagori (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a memory for storing image data; and processing circuitry in communication with the memory. The processing circuitry is configured to generate a respective context vector for each pixel of the image data; generate a respective initial depth distribution for each pixel of the image data; and determine, for each pixel of the image data, a respecti...