US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 25 for "Depth image data structure for storing image depth information" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,587, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Depth image data structure for storing image depth information" was invented by Marcus Waelivaara (Linkoping, Sweden) and Billy Karl Gerhard Krig (Linkoping, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provide techniques for processing image depth information. A method may include obtaining a depth image data structure representative of depth information for pixels in an image corresponding to coordinates in the image, wherein the depth image data structure comprises depth values associated with a subset of the pixels, and comprises: a plurality of t...