US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Feb. 17 for "Absolute depth estimation from a single image using online depth scale transfer" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,255, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Absolute depth estimation from a single image using online depth scale transfer" was invented by Alexandra Dana (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Amit Shomer (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Nadav Carmel (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Tomer Peleg (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Assaf Tzabari (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides architectures and techniques for absolute depth estimation from a single (e.g., monocular) image, using online depth scale transfer. For instance, estimation of up-to-scale depth maps from monocular images may be decoup...