US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 17 for "Method and apparatus for scene segmentation for three-dimensional scene reconstruction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,730, issued on June 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for scene segmentation for three-dimensional scene reconstruction" was invented by Yingen Xiong (Mountain View, Calif.) and Christopher A. Peri (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining, from an image sensor, image data of a real-world scene; obtaining, from a depth sensor, sparse depth data of the real-world scene; and passing the image data to a first neural network to obtain one or more object regions of interest (ROIs) and one or more feature map ROIs. Each object ROI includes...