US Patent Issued to HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 11 for "Depth completion method of sparse depth map and system thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,769, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES Ltd. (Tainan City, Taiwan).

"Depth completion method of sparse depth map and system thereof" was invented by Hong-Yu Chiu (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Yi-Nung Liu (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A depth completion method of sparse depth map includes: acquiring a grayscale image and a sparse depth map corresponding to the grayscale image; obtaining a nearest neighbor interpolation (NNI) image and a Euclidean distance transform (EDT) image based on the sparse depth map; inputting the grayscale image, the NNI image, and the EDT image into a neural network model,...