US Patent Issued to Snap on May 6 for "Varied depth determination using stereo vision and phase detection auto focus (PDAF)" (Austrian, American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,806, issued on May 6, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Varied depth determination using stereo vision and phase detection auto focus (PDAF)" was invented by Sagi Katz (Yokneam Ilit, Israel), Daniel Wagner (Vienna) and Weston Welge (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for varied depth determination using stereo vision and phase detection auto focus (PDAF). Computer stereo vision (stereo vision) is used to extract three-dimensional information from digital images. To utilize stereo vison, two optical sensors are displaced horizontally...