US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on July 15 for "Apparatuses and methods for training a machine learning network for use with a time-of-flight camera" (Italian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,276, issued on July 15, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Apparatuses and methods for training a machine learning network for use with a time-of-flight camera" was invented by Henrik Schafer (Stuttgart, Germany), Enrico Buratto (Lozzo Atestino, Italy), Gianluca Agresti (Rotondella, Italy) and Pietro Zanuttigh (Padua, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure proposes a concept of training a machine learning network for use with a ToF camera. Based on a predefined synthetic scene, it is simulated a ground truth time resolved illumination return signal for a light pulse emitted fro...