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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2020
Filed:
May. 23, 2018
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Mark Norman Lester Jouppi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael Wish Tao, San Jose, CA (US);
Eric Bujold, San Jose, CA (US);
Stephane Simon Rene Ben Soussan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Volker Roelke, Los Altos, CA (US);
Geoffrey T. Anneheim, San Francisco, CA (US);
Julio Cesar Hernandez Zaragoza, Mountain View, CA (US);
Florian Ciurea, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
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.