US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute, Toyota Jidosha on Aug. 5 for "Warping depth features for depth estimation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,582, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Warping depth features for depth estimation" was invented by Vitor Guizilini (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rares A. Ambrus (San Francisco) and Sergey Zakharov (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to an improved approach to training a depth model for monocular depth estimation by warping depth features prior to decoding. In one embodiment, a method includes encoding, using an encoder of a depth model, a source image into depth features of a s...