US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 27 for "Uncertainty quantification for monocular depth estimation" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,051, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Uncertainty quantification for monocular depth estimation" was invented by Hong Cai (San Diego), Yunxiao Shi (San Diego), Amin Ansari (Kirkland, Wash.), Sai Madhuraj Jadhav (Foster City, Calif.) and Fatih Murat Porikli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for generating an uncertainty metric used in monocular depth prediction. Such techniques may include generating, by an encoder, an encoded feature representation of the input image; generating, by a plurality of depth map prediction pathways, a plural...