US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on April 7 for "Depth differences in place of motion vectors" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,324, issued on April 7, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Depth differences in place of motion vectors" was invented by Ajit Ninan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Input texture images are received. Depth maps are determined for the input texture images. Each depth map in the depth maps includes depth values of pixels represented in a corresponding input texture image in the input texture images. Depth difference maps are generated from the depth maps. The depth difference maps include at least one depth difference map that is generated from two successive depth maps in the depth map...