US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute, Toyota Jidosha on June 24 for "Photometric cost volumes for self-supervised depth estimation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,530, issued on June 24, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Photometric cost volumes 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 cost volumes. In one embodiment, a method includes predicting, using a depth model, depth values from at least one input imag...