ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,125, issued on July 1, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Using histograms for self-supervised 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 to derive depth estimates from monocular images using histograms to assess photometric losses. In one embodiment, a method includes determining loss values according to a photometric loss f...