US Patent Issued to NTT on July 7 for "Image processing apparatus, method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,896, issued on July 7, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, method, and program" was invented by Masato Ono (Musashino, Japan), Takashi Sano (Musashino, Japan), Shinji Fukatsu (Musashino, Japan) and Yumi Kikuchi (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device according to an embodiment includes: a depth estimation unit that, when a size of a differential region between a first frame and a second frame at a timing later than a timing of the first frame in chronological order in a moving image satisfies a predetermined condition and is large, estimates a depth of at least a region co...