Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging device with 4-lens time-of-flight pixels and interleaved readout thereof
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Application No.: US14599444Application Date: 2015-01-16
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Publication No.: US09716819B2Publication Date: 2017-07-25
- Inventor: Ilia Ovsiannikov
- Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: KR
- Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: KR
- Agency: Renaissance IP Law Group LLP
- Main IPC: H04N5/00
- IPC: H04N5/00 ; H04N5/225 ; H04N5/232

Abstract:
Ranging devices, systems, and methods are provided. In embodiments, a device includes a casing with four openings and an array with depth pixels. The depth pixels are arranged in four quadrants, so that pixels in each of the quadrants receive light through one of the four openings. The depth pixels may generate samples in response to the received light. For a certain frame, a controller reads out samples from each of the quadrants before completing reading out the samples of any one of the quadrants. In some embodiments, reading out is performed by using interleaved rolling shutter for the rows.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160094834A1 IMAGING DEVICE WITH 4-LENS TIME-OF-FLIGHT PIXELS & INTERLEAVED READOUT THEREOF Public/Granted day:2016-03-31
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