Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Single frequency time of flight de-aliasing
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Application No.: US13720396Application Date: 2012-12-19
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Publication No.: US09602807B2Publication Date: 2017-03-21
- Inventor: Randall T. Crane , Rod G. Fleck , Jedd 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: Vierra Magen Marcus LLP
- Main IPC: G01S17/08
- IPC: G01S17/08 ; H04N13/02 ; G01S17/36 ; G01S17/89 ; G01S7/486 ; G01S7/491

Abstract:
A system and method are disclosed for determining a depth map using TOF with low power consumption. In order to disambiguate, or de-alias, the returned distance(s) for a given phase shift, the system may emit n different frequencies of light over n successive image frames. After n frames of data are collected, the distances may be correlated by a variety of methodologies to determine a single distance to the object as measured over n image frames. As one frequency may be emitted per image frame, the depth map may be developed while consuming low power.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140168369A1 SINGLE FREQUENCY TIME OF FLIGHT DE-ALIASING Public/Granted day:2014-06-19
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