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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2010
Chao Tian, Madison, NJ (US);
Vinay Anant Vaishampayan, Summit, NJ (US);
Yifu Zhang, College Station, TX (US);
Chao Tian, Madison, NJ (US);
Vinay Anant Vaishampayan, Summit, NJ (US);
Yifu Zhang, College Station, TX (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A system that incorporates teachings of the exemplary embodiments may include, for example, means for generating a disparity map based on a depth map, means for determining accuracy of pixels in the depth map where the determining means identifies the pixels as either accurate or inaccurate based on a confidence map and the disparity map, and means for providing an adjusted depth map where the providing means adjusts inaccurate pixels of the depth map using a cost function associated with the inaccurate pixels. Other embodiments are disclosed.