ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,799, issued on March 31, was assigned to Adeia Imaging LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for estimating depth from projected texture using camera arrays" was invented by Kartik Venkataraman (San Jose, Calif.) and Jacques Duparre (Jena, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for estimating depth from projected texture using camera arrays are described. A camera array includes a conventional camera and at least one two-dimensional array of cameras, where the conventional camera has a higher resolution than the cameras in the at least one two-dimensional array of cameras, an illumination system configured...