Apple Inc.

Volker Roelke

Florian Ciurea

Michael Wish Tao

Geoffrey T Anneheim

Julio Cesar Hernandez Zaragoza

Eric Bujold

Stephane Simon Rene Ben Soussan

Mark Norman Lester Jouppi

An electronic device comprises circuitry implementing a depth map enhancer. The depth map enhancer obtains an initial depth map corresponding to a scene and an image of the scene. The depth map enhancer generates a refined depth map corresponding to the scene using an optimizer, the initial depth map and the image. The refined depth map includes estimated depth indicators corresponding to at least a first depth-information region, identified based at least in part on a first criterion, of the initial depth map. Input based on the refined depth map is provided to an image processing application.

Efficient scene depth map enhancement for low power devices

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Los Altos, CA, United States of America

Volker Roelke