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patent · US9435891

Time of flight camera with stripe illumination

6 September 2016

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Abstract

A time of flight (TOF) based camera system includes an illumination module that illuminates only portion of the sensor's field of view that translates to a given region of the pixels of the imaging sensor. The acquired data of the pixel region is processed and/or readout, typically. After the exposure time of the first pixel region is completed, a second pixel region is illuminated and the second pixel region is processed. This procedure can be repeated a couple of times up t...

Provenance

Collection
Cited prior art
Filed
2013-02-15
Source
Google Patents bibliographic record
Granted
2016-09-06
Inventors
Thierry Oggier; Heptagon Micro Optics Pte Ltd