US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 12 for "Systems and methods for depth map sampling" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,521, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for depth map sampling" was invented by Albrecht Johannes Lindner (La Jolla, Calif.), Volodimir Slobodyanyuk (San Diego), Stephen Michael Verrall (Del Mar, Calif.) and Kalin Mitkov Atanassov (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic imaging device and method for image capture are described. The imaging device includes a camera configured to obtain image information of a scene and that may be focused on a region of interest in the scene. The imaging device also includes a LIDAR unit configured to obtain depth information of at least a p...