US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Jan. 20 for "Hardware-efficient disparity estimation using the DCT of interleaved images" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,790, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Hardware-efficient disparity estimation using the DCT of interleaved images" was invented by Naomi Shamul (Suwon-si, South Korea), Tal Bernstein (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Tamar Dreifuss (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for disparity estimation between digital images includes generating an interleaved image from two or more digital images with an offset between them, where the interleaved image is subdivided into a plurality of patches, computing discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients of each of the plur...