US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 22 for "Expanded field of view using multiple cameras" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,872, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Expanded field of view using multiple cameras" was invented by Kai Berger (San Jose, Calif.), Dan C Lelescu (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Tobias Rick (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for providing an expanded field of view (FoV) using multiple cameras of a device. A device may include front-facing cameras that capture views of an environment, as well as side cameras that capture wider-angle views. Images from the front and side cameras may be processed to provide a stereo view of the environment with an expanded FoV. Imag...