ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,182, issued on May 27, was assigned to Rapyuta Robotics Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus and a method for estimating depth of a scene" was invented by Kota Mogami (Tokyo) and Kunal Tyagi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to apparatus (100) for estimating depth of scene, comprising plurality of sensors (101) including Time of Flight (ToF) sensors and stereo sensors pairs, memory (103) and one or more processors (104). At least one pair of stereo sensors is placed perpendicular to other pairs of stereo sensors. One or more processors (104) are configured to determine disparity for plurality of sensors (10...