ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,798, issued on March 31, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Multi-sensor depth mapping" was invented by Shay Yosub (Kfar Yehezkel, Israel), Assaf Avraham (Givatayim, Israel), Jawad Nawasra (San Francisco), Jonathan Pokrass (Herzliya, Israel), Moshe Laifenfeld (Haifa, Israel), Nir Ben Zadok (Holon, Israel), Niv Gilboa (Raanana, Israel), Tal Kaitz (Kiryat Ono, Israel), Ronen Akerman (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Naveh Levanon (Netanya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Depth mapping apparatus includes an illumination assembly, which directs modulated optical radiation toward a target scene, and a camera, which captures a t...