ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,818, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method, system and apparatus for monocular depth estimation" was invented by Mehmet Yucel (Surrey, Great Britain), Albert Saa-Garriga (Surrey, Great Britain) and Valia Dimaridou (Salonika, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Broadly speaking, this disclosure generally relates to methods, systems and apparatuses for performing monocular depth estimation, i.e. depth estimation using a single camera. In particular, this disclosure relates to a method for generating a training dataset for training a machine learning, ML, model using federated...