US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, The Trustees of Indiana University on March 24 for "Method and apparatus for estimating depth information of images" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,221, issued on March 24, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea) and The Trustees of Indiana University (Indianapolis).

"Method and apparatus for estimating depth information of images" was invented by Soon-Heung Jung (Daejeon, South Korea), David Crandall (Bloomington, Ind.), Vibhas Kumar Vats (Bloomington, Ind.), Shaurya Shubham (Bloomington, Ind.), Md Alimoor Reza (Bloomington, Ind.) and Chuhua Wang (Bloomington, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for estimating depth information of an image are disclosed. The depth information estimation method of the i...