ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,575, issued on July 15, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Depth estimation with sparse range sensor depth and uncertainty projection" was invented by Vitor Guizilini (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jie Li (Los Altos, Calif.) and Charles Christopher Ochoa (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for depth estimation from monocular images using a depth model with sparse range sensor data and uncertainty in the range sensor as inputs thereto. According to some embodiments, the methods and systems comprise receiving an image captured b...