US Patent Issued to Torc Robotics on Sept. 22 for "Method and system for depth estimation using cross-spectral gated-RGB stereo" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,803, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Torc Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Method and system for depth estimation using cross-spectral gated-RGB stereo" was invented by Felix Heide (New York City, N.Y.), Mario Bijelic (Frankfurt, Germany) and Samuel Brucker (Hardthausen am Kocher, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system related to a gated camera stereo system, a red-clear-clear-blue (RCCB) camera, at least one memory, and at least one processor communicatively coupled with the at least one memory. The processor is configured to: control the gated camera stereo system to emit a pulse of light at a predetermined wavelen...