MUMBAI, India, April 10 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202441075109 A) filed by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Gyeonggi, Republic of Korea, on Oct. 4, 2024, for 'methods and systems for estimating depth of image frames for use in head-mounted device.'
Inventor(s) include Aravindan, Siddharth; Dhiman, Ankit; Vandrotti, Basavaraja Shanthappa; Singh, Pushkar Raj; Boregowda, Lokesh Rayasandra; Kim, Jooyoung; and Kim, Kihwan.
The application for the patent was published on April 10, under issue no. 15/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure discloses methods and systems for estimating a depth of one or more image frames for use in a head-mounted device (HMD). The method comprises capturing a left image from a left camera and a right image from a right camera of the multi-camera setup. The method further comprises capturing, by the HMD, the one or more image frames. The method also comprises extracting, by the HMD, one or more features from each of the one or more image frames. The method thereafter comprises predicting, by the HMD, a minimum number of depth sampling points for estimating the depth of each of the one or more image frames using the one or more extracted features. The method further comprises estimating, by the HMD, the depth of each of the one or more image frames using the corresponding minimum number of depth sampling points."
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