US Patent Issued to Varjo Technologies on March 11 for "Extended depth-of-field correction using reconstructed depth map" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,050, issued on March 11, was assigned to Varjo Technologies Oy (Helsinki).

"Extended depth-of-field correction using reconstructed depth map" 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 computer-implemented method includes obtaining 3D model of real-world environment; receiving image of real-world environment captured using camera and pose information indicative of camera pose from which image is captured; utilising 3D model of real-world environment to generate reconstructed depth map from perspective of camera pose; and applying extended depth-of-field ...