US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 22 for "Apparatus and method for generating depth maps from raw dual pixel sensor data" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,801, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus and method for generating depth maps from raw dual pixel sensor data" was invented by Bradley Scott Denney (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus and method for generating a sub-pixel alignment estimate from dual-pixel sensor data is provided. The method includes parametrically fitting at least two signals observed across a two dual-pixels of the dual-pixel sensor in the direction of the dual-pixel split, generating at least one bilinear measure on the at least two signals' fitting parameters, determining an alignment confid...