US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute, Toyota Jidosha on March 3 for "Producing a depth map from two-dimensional images" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,170, issued on March 3, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Producing a depth map from two-dimensional images" was invented by Vitor Guizilini (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rares A. Ambrus (San Francisco), Dian Chen (Mountain View, Calif.), Adrien David Gaidon (Mountain View, Calif.) and Sergey Zakharov (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for producing a depth map can include a processor and a memory. The memory can store a candidate depth production module and a depth map production module. The candidate depth production module can include instructi...