ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,802, issued on April 14, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Electronic device for generating depth map and operating method thereof" was invented by Jae-Hyuck Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyoung-Wook Min (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jeong Dan Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a processor which includes a camera image feature extractor that extracts a camera image feature based on a camera image, a LIDAR image feature extractor that extracts a LIDAR image feature based on a LIDAR image, a sampling unit that performs a sampling operation bas...