ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,387, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and electronic device for determining depth information of objects in a scene" was invented by Akshat Ramachandran (Bengaluru, India), Ankit Dhiman (Bengaluru, India), Basavaraja Shanthappa Vandrotti (Bengaluru, India), Jooyoung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Lokesh Rayasandra Boregowda (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining depth information of objects in a scene, includes: generating RGB images having a first pixel density using an RGB camera; generating a depth image having a second pixel densit...