Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Determining depth information from a single camera
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Application No.: US17113011Application Date: 2020-12-05
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Publication No.: US11647175B2Publication Date: 2023-05-09
- Inventor: Richard Mann , Badrinath Padmanabhan , Boyd Fowler , Alireza Bonakdar , Eiichi Funatsu
- Applicant: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Main IPC: H04N13/218
- IPC: H04N13/218 ; G06T7/593 ; H04N13/257 ; G06T7/571 ; H04N23/67

Abstract:
An optical system comprises an imaging lens for imaging an object to an image and a sensing pixel array for detecting lights from the object toward the image. The sensing pixel array comprises a first sensing pixel and a second sensing pixel, each sensing pixel comprising a microlens covering a one-dimensional series of photodiodes having n photodiodes. A photodiode at an end of the one-dimensional series of photodiodes of the first sensing pixel detects a first light from the object toward the image, and a photodiode at an opposite end of the one-dimensional series of photodiodes of the second sensing pixel detects a second light from the object toward the image, where the first light and the second light pass opposite parts of the imaging lens.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210176447A1 Determining Depth Information From A Single Camera Public/Granted day:2021-06-10
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