ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,648, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to STREEM LLC (Portland, Ore.).

"Confidence score for depth map or 3D mesh" was invented by Nikilesh Urella (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of devices and techniques of obtaining a three dimensional (3D) representation of an area are disclosed. In one embodiment, a two dimensional (2D) frame is obtained of an array of pixels of the area. Also, a depth frame of the area is obtained. The depth frame includes an array of depth estimation values. Each of the depth estimation values in the array of depth estimation values corresponds to one or more corresponding pixels in the a...