US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 14 for "Modifying depth maps" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,476, issued on July 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Modifying depth maps" was invented by Sumeer Arya (Austin, Texas), Bhupinder Singh Parhar (Princeton, N.J.), Aydin Emre Guzel (Cambridge, Great Britain), Lei Zhang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Aditya Kulkarni (San Diego) and Eric Lutz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described herein for modifying depth maps. For instance, a method for modifying depth maps is provided. The method may include obtaining a depth map comprising a plurality of depth values; obtaining a plurality of confidence values comprising a respective confidence value for ...