ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,407, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Tencent Cloud Europe (France) SAS (Paris).
"Depth estimation method in an immersive video context" was invented by Joel Jung (Paris).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of synthesizing an image includes receiving a coded video stream corresponding to different views of a scene acquired by a plurality of cameras, and identifying one or more derivable depth blocks of a target depth map corresponding to an image of the coded video stream. The method further includes determining a corresponding operation to derive a depth of each of the one or more derivable depth blocks, the operation being appli...