ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,768, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Varjo Technologies Oy (Helsinki).
"Method and apparatus for depth image enhancement" was invented by Mikko Strandborg (Hangonkyla, Finland) and Mikko Ollila (Tampere, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for depth image enhancement implemented in at least one apparatus includes reading and processing Phase Detection Autofocus (PDAF) pixels of a region-of-interest (ROI) area of a gaze region in an image obtained from a color camera sensor; utilizing one or more depth camera sensors to provide one or more depth maps of the ROI area of the gaze region; and combining the processed PDAF p...