US Patent Issued to Japan Display on Jan. 13 for "Imaging apparatus, depth map generation method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,537, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Japan Display Inc. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus, depth map generation method, and program" was invented by Hirondo Nakatogawa (Tokyo), Yoshiro Aoki (Tokyo) and Hitoshi Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arithmetic control unit executes: an imaging process of controlling a coded imaging system to capture an image of a subject by coded imaging and obtain a first captured image; an image generation process of reducing resolution of the first captured image to obtain a second captured image; a partial region setting process of setting a partial region in the first captured image; a proc...