US Patent Issued to Google on May 19 for "Techniques to capture and edit dynamic depth images" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,429, issued on May 19, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Techniques to capture and edit dynamic depth images" was invented by Mira Leung (Seattle), Steve Perry (Mountain View, Calif.), Fares Alhassen (Redwood Shores, Calif.), Abe Stephens (San Mateo, Calif.) and Neal Wadhwa (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations described herein relate to a computer-implemented method that includes capturing image data using one or more cameras, wherein the image data includes a primary image and associated depth values. The method further includes encoding the image data in an image format. The encode...