US Patent Issued to Apple on April 21 for "Extended depth of field using deep learning" (American, Danish, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,138, issued on April 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Extended depth of field using deep learning" was invented by Dan C. Lelescu (Grandvaux, Switzerland), Rohit Rajiv Ranade (Pleasanton, Calif.), Noah Bedard (Los Gatos, Calif.), Brian McCall (San Jose, Calif.), Kathrin Berkner Cieslicki (Los Altos, Calif.), Michael W. Tao (San Jose, Calif.), Robert K. Molholm (Scotts Valley, Calif.), Toke Jansen (Holte, Denmark) and Vladimir Krneta (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for image enhancement includes capturing multiple input images of a scene, including at least a first input image having a fi...