Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and systems for generating depth data by converging independently-captured depth maps
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Application No.: US15339694Application Date: 2016-10-31
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Publication No.: US10271033B2Publication Date: 2019-04-23
- Inventor: Syed Meeran Kamal , Steven L. Smith , Yongsheng Pan , Sergey Virodov , Jonathan A. Globerson , Lama Hewage Ravi Prathapa Chandrasiri , Mohammad Raheel Khalid
- Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
- Applicant Address: US NJ Basking Ridge
- Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
- Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NJ Basking Ridge
- Main IPC: H04N13/156
- IPC: H04N13/156 ; H04N13/117 ; H04N13/271 ; H04N13/282 ; G06T5/50 ; G01B11/00 ; H04N5/247

Abstract:
An exemplary depth data generation system (“system”) accesses a first depth map and a second depth map of surfaces of objects included in a real-world scene. The first and second depth maps are captured independently from one another. The system converges the first and second depth maps into a converged depth map of the surfaces of the objects included in the real-world scene. More specifically, the converging comprises assigning a first confidence value to a first depth data point in the first depth map, assigning a second confidence value to a second depth data point in the second depth map, and generating a third depth data point representing a same particular physical point as the first and second depth data points based on the first and second confidence values and on at least one of the first depth data point and the second depth data point.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180124371A1 Methods and Systems for Generating Depth Data by Converging Independently-Captured Depth Maps Public/Granted day:2018-05-03
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