US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Oct. 21 for "Method and apparatus with image processing for processing depth images" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,696, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus with image processing for processing depth images" was invented by Heewon Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Seon Min Rhee (Seoul, South Korea), Jihye Kim (Anyang-si, South Korea) and Seungju Han (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method with image processing includes: generating a first surface normal image comprising surface normal vectors corresponding to pixels of a first depth image; and applying the first depth image and the first surface normal image to a first neural network, and acquiring a second dept...