US Patent Issued to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE on April 29 for "Depth estimation based on ego-motion estimation and residual flow estimation" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,348, issued on April 29, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Depth estimation based on ego-motion estimation and residual flow estimation" was invented by Jiexiong Tang (Stockholm), Rares Andrei Ambrus (San Francisco), Vitor Guizilini (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Adrien David Gaidon (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for depth estimation performed by a depth estimation system associated with an agent includes determining a first depth of a first image and a second depth of a second image, the first image and the second image being captured by a sensor associated with the agent....