US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on July 21 for "Determining depth maps from images" (Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,595, issued on July 21, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Determining depth maps from images" was invented by Evgeny Victorovich Vorobyev (Moscow), Dmitry Petrovich Nikolaev (Moscow), Anton Sergeevich Grigoriev (Moscow), Anna Alexandrovna Smagina (Moscow), Denis Alexandrovich Shepelev (Moscow) and Mikhail Konstantinovich Tchobanou (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method generates a depth map from an image. In the method, a first depth data is generated that represents a first measure proportional to depth for pixels in the image using a first selected colour channel of the image, where the first...