US Patent Issued to Black Sesame Technologies on Dec. 2 for "Depth estimation based on data fusion of image sensor and depth sensor frames" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,421, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Black Sesame Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Depth estimation based on data fusion of image sensor and depth sensor frames" was invented by Jiaoyang Yao (Singapore), Fangwen Tu (Singapore) and Bo Li (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of depth estimation, including, receiving an image frame, determining a relative depth map based on the image frame, receiving a sparse depth frame, preprocessing the sparse depth frame, determining a scale-adjusted relative depth map based on the relative depth map and the preprocessed sparse depth frame and fusing the relative depth map and t...