Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Tileable structured light projection for wide field-of-view depth sensing
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Application No.: US15409314Application Date: 2017-01-18
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Publication No.: US10158845B2Publication Date: 2018-12-18
- Inventor: Zhaoming Zhu , Nicholas Daniel Trail , Renzo De Nardi , Richard Andrew Newcombe
- Applicant: Facebook Technologies, LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Agency: Fenwick & West LLP
- Main IPC: H04N7/00
- IPC: H04N7/00 ; H04N13/254 ; G06F3/01 ; H04N13/332 ; G01B11/25 ; G06T7/521

Abstract:
A depth camera assembly (DCA) includes a projector, a detector and a controller. The projector emits a tiled structured light (SL) pattern onto a local area. Each illumination source of the projector includes one or more light emitters and an augmented diffractive optical element (ADOE) designed with a pattern mask. The ADOE diffracts at least a portion of light beams emitted from the light emitters to form a first SL pattern projection having a field-of-view corresponding to a first tileable boundary. The pattern mask prevents projection of light that would otherwise be diffracted outside the first tileable boundary. The first SL pattern projection is combined with at least a second SL pattern projection into the tiled SL pattern illuminating objects in the local area. The detector captures images of the objects illuminated by the SL pattern. The controller determines depth information for the objects using the captured images.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180205937A1 TILEABLE STRUCTURED LIGHT PROJECTION FOR WIDE FIELD-OF-VIEW DEPTH SENSING Public/Granted day:2018-07-19
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