US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea University of Technology and Education Industry-University Cooperation Foundation on Jan. 13 for "Method and apparatus for estimating depth of image" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,896, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea) and Korea University of Technology and Education Industry-University Cooperation Foundation (Cheonan-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for estimating depth of image" was invented by Beom-Su Seo (Sejong-si, South Korea) and Byung-Jae Park (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for estimating a depth of an image. The method may include acquiring a first depth image based on left and right images collected from a stereo camera, estimating a second depth image based on any o...