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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2017
Filed:
May. 01, 2014
Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (Epfl), Lausanne, CH;
Abdulkadir Akin, Ecublens, CH;
Yusuf Leblebici, Lutry, CH;
Alexandre Schmid, Sion, CH;
Ipek Baz, Istanbul, TR;
Irem Boybat, Ecublens, CH;
Huseyin Baris Atakan, Zürich, CH;
ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL), Lausanne, CH;
Abstract
A real-time stereo camera disparity estimation device comprises input means arranged to input measured data corresponding to rows of left and right images; a plurality of on-chip memories arranged to buffer the input measured data; a vertical rotator hardware module configured to align the rows of left and right images in a same column; a reconfigurable data allocation hardware module; a reconfigurable computation of metrics hardware module; and an adaptive disparity selection hardware module configured to select disparity values with the minimum matching costs.