Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multiple-mode frequency sharing for time-of-flight camera
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Application No.: US16578776Application Date: 2019-09-23
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Publication No.: US11619723B2Publication Date: 2023-04-04
- Inventor: Zhanping Xu , Andrew Dean Payne , John Peter Godbaz , Travis J. Perry
- Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agency: Alleman Hall Creasman & Tuttle LLP
- Main IPC: G01S7/4915
- IPC: G01S7/4915 ; G01S7/4911 ; G01S17/42 ; G01S17/89 ; H04N5/225

Abstract:
Examples are disclosed herein that relate to a time-of-flight camera that performs phase unwrapping in an efficient manner. In one example, a time-of-flight camera includes a light emitter, a sensor array, and a controller. The controller is configured to select a frequency mode from a plurality of frequency modes, each frequency mode including two or more different frequencies, and at least two different frequency modes of the plurality of frequency modes having a common frequency shared between the at least two frequency modes, control the light emitter to illuminate a scene with modulated light of the two or more different frequencies of the frequency mode selected, control the sensor array to receive the modulated light reflected from objects within the scene, and process the modulated light received to determine unwrapped phases for the frequency mode selected based on the two or more different frequencies of the frequency mode selected.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210088636A1 MULTIPLE-MODE FREQUENCY SHARING FOR TIME-OF-FLIGHT CAMERA Public/Granted day:2021-03-25
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