US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute, Toyota Jidosha on Sept. 8 for "Protecting personally identifiable information (PII) using monocular depth estimation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,215, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Protecting personally identifiable information (PII) using monocular depth estimation" was invented by Adrien David Gaidon (San Jose, Calif.) and Vitor Campagnolo Guizilini (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to protecting personally identifiable information (PII) with the use of a monocular depth estimation. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring an original image depicting surrounding objects present in an environm...