US Patent Issued to JAPAN DISPLAY on March 3 for "Imaging system and object depth estimation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,163, issued on March 3, was assigned to JAPAN DISPLAY INC. (Tokyo).

"Imaging system and object depth estimation method" 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: "Object depth estimation based on coded imaging is improved in terms of practicality. An imaging system is provided to include: an imaging apparatus including an optical system and an imaging apparatus and configured to perform coded imaging on an object under use of the optical system and the imaging apparatus; a temperature specifying section configured to specify an environmental temperature of...