US Patent Issued to Google on March 17 for "Correlation-based object anti-spoofing for dual-pixel cameras" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,845, issued on March 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Correlation-based object anti-spoofing for dual-pixel cameras" was invented by Siyuan Qiao (Mountain View, Calif.) and Wen-Sheng Chu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining dual-pixel image data that represents an object and includes a first sub-image and a second sub-image, and generating (i) a first feature map based on the first sub-image and (ii) a second feature map based on the second sub-image. The method also includes generating a correlation volume by determining, for each respective offset of a plurality of of...