ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,681, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Effective leveraging of synthetic data for depth estimation machine learning models" was invented by Amin Ansari (Federal Way, Wash.), Sai Madhuraj Jadhav (San Diego) and Avdhut Joshi (San Marcos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for improved machine learning. Data from a source domain and data from a target domain is accessed. A set of machine learning models is trained, based on the data from the source domain and the data from the target domain, to generate depth outputs based on input...