Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Motion sensor device having plurality of light sources
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Application No.: US14423625Application Date: 2014-06-25
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Publication No.: US10313599B2Publication Date: 2019-06-04
- Inventor: Ryuji Fuchikami
- Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
- Applicant Address: US CA Torrance
- Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
- Current Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Torrance
- Agency: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP
- Priority: JP2013-137792 20130701
- International Application: PCT/JP2014/003404 WO 20140625
- International Announcement: WO2015/001770 WO 20150108
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; H04N5/235 ; G01C3/06 ; G01S17/46 ; G01S5/16 ; G06K9/46 ; H04N5/232 ; H04N7/18

Abstract:
A motion sensor device including: an image sensor; first and second light sources; and control circuitry configured to control the image sensor and the first and second light sources. The control circuitry is configured to: repeatedly perform the operation of making the image sensor capture a first frame with light emitted from the first light source at a first time, the operation of making the image sensor capture a second frame with light emitted from the second light source at a second time, and the operation of generating information about the distance to an object based on first and second images that have been gotten by capturing the first and second frames, respectively, and control the respective quantities of light emitted from the first and second light sources individually by reference to information that has been collected through the previous or earlier image capturing session.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150222798A1 MOTION SENSOR DEVICE HAVING PLURALITY OF LIGHT SOURCES Public/Granted day:2015-08-06
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