US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 6 for "Device and method for acquiring depth of space by using camera" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,687, issued on May 6, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Device and method for acquiring depth of space by using camera" was invented by Byeongwook Yoo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Gunill Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Wonwoo Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jiwon Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method of obtaining a depth of a space are provided. The method includes obtaining a plurality of images by photographing a periphery of a camera a plurality of times while sequentially rotating the camera by a preset angle, identifying a first feature region in a first ima...