US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute, Toyota Jidosha on July 7 for "Retrofit vision assist with monocular depth estimation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,613, issued on July 7, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Retrofit vision assist with monocular depth estimation" was invented by Yuki Wakayama (Mountain View, Calif.) and Erin A McColl (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to retrofit vision assist systems for vehicles based on monocular depth estimation. In one embodiment, a method for operating a depth system of a vehicle includes acquiring a camera image from a monocular camera that is retrofitted to a vehicle. The method also includ...