US Patent Issued to Analog Devices International UnLtd. on Oct. 14 for "Using guided filter to enhance depth estimation with brightness image" (Irish, British, American, Polish, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,705, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Analog Devices International UnLtd. Co. (Limerick, Ireland).

"Using guided filter to enhance depth estimation with brightness image" was invented by Kevin Joseph Mcandrew (Galway, Ireland), Krystian Balicki (Wroclaw, Poland), Charles Mathy (Arlington, Mass.), Nicolas Le Dortz (Jamaica Plain, Mass.), Jonathan Ephraim David Hurwitz (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Eoin E. English (Pallasgreen, Ireland) and Javier Calpe Maravilla (Valencia, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A depth estimation system can use a guided filter to enhance depth estimation using brightness image. Light is projected onto a...