ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,431, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Depth map generation method, and device and storage medium" was invented by Fang Zhu (Shenzhen, China), Yike Wang (Shenzhen, China), Xiaobing Qian (Shenzhen, China) and Yanbin Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a depth map generation method, a device and a storage medium, which belong to the technical field of image processing. The method includes: generating, according to a first spherical image acquired by a first fisheye lens and a second spherical image acquired by a second fisheye lens, a first disparity map of a spatial region wher...