US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 12 for "Depth information generation based on LiDAR and camera integration" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,383, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Depth information generation based on LiDAR and camera integration" was invented by Louis Joseph Kerofsky (San Diego), Madhumitha Sakthi (Dublin, Calif.), Varun Ravi Kumar (San Diego) and Senthil Kumar Yogamani (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for generating depth information includes processing circuitry configured to: determine a camera frame timestamp indicative of when a camera frame is captured, the camera frame including image content across a capture angle range; determine a plurality of LiDAR frame timestamps each indicative of when a respecti...