ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,599, issued on July 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Planar surface detection apparatus and method" was invented by Seungeon Kim (Icheon, South Korea), Hyun Sung Chang (Seoul, South Korea), Wonhee Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Seokhwan Jang (Anyang-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method and apparatus for detecting a planar surface, the method including acquiring, based on a pixelwise disparity of an input image estimated in a first network, a pixelwise plane parameter of the input image, determining a pixelwise segment matching probability of the input image ba...