ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,676, issued on May 20, was assigned to VIEWORKS Co. LTD. (Anyang-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for generating high depth of field image, and apparatus for training high depth of field image generation model using stereo image" was invented by Yu Jung Kang (Anyang-si, South Korea) and Min Gyu Jin (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high depth of field image generating apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a region segmentation unit which segments a region for a stereo image to generate region data, a depth estimating unit which estimates depths for the stereo image to generate depth data, an...