US Patent Issued to Varjo Technologies on March 31 for "Method for depth estimation and head-mounted display" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,989, issued on March 31, was assigned to Varjo Technologies Oy (Helsinki).

"Method for depth estimation and head-mounted display" was invented by Mikko Ollila (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for depth estimation including receiving first and second colour images and sparse depth map corresponding to first and second colour images; generating first and second depth prediction maps by providing first and second colour images and sparse depth map as input to neural network, wherein neural network has first branch for receiving first colour image and sparse depth map as input to generate first dept...