ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,830, issued on April 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Distance estimation using a geometrical distance aware machine learning model" was invented by David Unger (Stuttgart, Germany), Senthil Kumar Yogamani (Headford, Ireland) and Varun Ravi Kumar (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and systems are provided for generating depth information for an image. For instance, a process can include obtaining one or more images of an environment. The process can further include generating a set of features for the one or more images. The process can also include combining the set of features with one or more dist...