US Patent Issued to Niantic Spatial on June 16 for "Self-supervised training of a depth estimation system" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,447, issued on June 16, was assigned to Niantic Spatial Inc. (San Francisco).

"Self-supervised training of a depth estimation system" was invented by Clement Godard (London), Oisin Mac Aodha (Los Angeles), Michael Firman (London) and Gabriel J. Brostow (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for training a depth estimation model and methods for use thereof are described. Images are acquired and input into a depth model to extract a depth map for each of the plurality of images based on parameters of the depth model. The method includes inputting the images into a pose decoder to extract a pose for each image. The method inclu...