ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,564, issued on July 28, was assigned to Yinwang Intelligent Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Depth estimation method and apparatus, method and apparatus for training depth estimation model, and system" was invented by Qi Cao (Shenzhen, China), Di Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Shuzhan Bi (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a depth estimation method, a depth estimation apparatus obtains a first color image, and inputs the first color image into a first depth estimation model to obtain a first intermediate depth image. The depth estimation apparatus then inputs the first color image and the first intermediate depth...