US Patent Issued to Compound Eye on Aug. 4 for "Depth determination system and method" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,117, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Compound Eye Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Depth determination system and method" was invented by Jason Devitt (Redwood City, Calif.) and Zachary Flom (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for dense depth map determination from image data, including: predicting a standard disparity map for the image using a standard disparity model based on the image; and converting the standard disparity map to a depth map using a focal length in pixels associated with the image."

The patent was filed on Dec. 11, 2025, under Application No. 19/416,494.

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