US Patent Issued to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 30 for "Photometric masks for self-supervised depth learning" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,022, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Photometric masks for self-supervised depth learning" was invented by Vitor Guizilini (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method estimating a depth of an environment includes generating, via a cross-attention model, a cross-attention cost volume based on a current image of the environment and a previous image of the environment in a sequence of images. The method also includes generating, via the cross-attention model, a depth estimate of the current image based on the cross-atten...