US Patent Issued on April 7 for "Obtaining a depth map" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,150, issued on April 7.

"Obtaining a depth map" was invented by Jeremie Teyssier (Grenoble, France), Cedric Tubert (Saint-Egreve, France), Thibault Augey (Grenoble, France) and Thomas Bouchet (Fontanil-Cornillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises, for each pixel of a depth map, acquiring samples and calculating a distance, and defining a window of N*N pixels with this image pixel at the center, N being an odd integer equal to or greater than 3, and, for each window, classifying the pixels of the window into groups, based on a threshold and distances calculated, calculating for each group, a number of pixels in ...