ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,380, issued on May 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Pattern-based depth mapping with extended reference image" was invented by Shay Yosub (Kfar Yehezkel, Israel), Noam Badt (Tel Aviv, Israel), Boris Morgenstein (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yuval Vardi (Tel Aviv, Israel), David Pawlowski (Tel Aviv, Israel), Assaf Avraham (Givatayim, Israel), Pieter Spinnewyn (Los Gatos, Calif.), Tom Levy (Holon, Israel) and Yohai Zmora (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for depth mapping includes providing a depth mapping device comprising a projector, which is configured to project a pattern of optical radiation onto a t...