ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,550, issued on July 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Depth estimation based on feature reconstruction with adaptive masking and motion prediction" was invented by Rajeev Yasarla (San Diego), Hong Cai (San Diego), Risheek Garrepalli (San Diego), Yinhao Zhu (La Jolla, Calif.), Jisoo Jeong (San Diego), Yunxiao Shi (San Diego), Manish Kumar Singh (San Diego) and Fatih Murat Porikli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for generating depth information. For example, a process can include obtaining a first feature volume including visual features corresponding to each respective frame ...