ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,779, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Depth estimation using image and sparse depth inputs" was invented by Georgi Dikov (Amsterdam), Mohsen Ghafoorian (Diemen, Netherlands) and Joris Johannes Lambertus Van Vugt (Utrecht, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for generating depth information from one or more images. For instance, a method can include obtaining an image of a scene and obtaining depth information associated with one or more objects in the scene. The method can include processing, using an encoder of a neural network model, the image and the depth ...