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patent · US9525863

Time-of-flight depth mapping with flexible scan pattern

20 December 2016

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This patent is cited by material in the archive, so it is indexed here by number, title and inventor. The archive holds no copy of its text.

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Abstract

Imaging apparatus includes an image sensor, which acquires an image of a scene, and a scanner, which includes an optical transmitter, which emits a sequence of optical pulses toward the scene, and an optical receiver, which receives the optical pulses reflected from the scene and generates an output indicative of respective times of flight of the pulses. Scanning optics are configured to scan the optical pulses over the scene in a scan pattern that covers and is contained wit...

Provenance

Collection
Cited prior art
Filed
2015-04-29
Source
Google Patents bibliographic record
Granted
2016-12-20
Inventors
Jawad Nawasra; Scott T. Smith; Apple Inc