Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Timestamp calibration of the 3D camera with epipolar line laser point scanning
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Application No.: US16149023Application Date: 2018-10-01
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Publication No.: US10447958B2Publication Date: 2019-10-15
- Inventor: Yibing Michelle Wang , 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 ; H04N5/378 ; H04N5/374 ; H04N5/376 ; H04N17/00 ; H04N5/232

Abstract:
Using the same image sensor to capture a two-dimensional (2D) image and three-dimensional (3D) depth measurements for a 3D object. A laser point-scans the surface of the object with light spots, which are detected by a pixel array in the image sensor to generate the 3D depth profile of the object using triangulation. Each row of pixels in the pixel array forms an epipolar line of the corresponding laser scan line. Timestamping provides a correspondence between the pixel location of a captured light spot and the respective scan angle of the laser to remove any ambiguity in triangulation. An Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) in the image sensor operates as a Time-to-Digital (TDC) converter to generate timestamps. A timestamp calibration circuit is provided on-board to record the propagation delay of each column of pixels in the pixel array and to provide necessary corrections to the timestamp values generated during 3D depth measurements.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190045151A1 TIMESTAMP CALIBRATION OF THE 3D CAMERA WITH EPIPOLAR LINE LASER POINT SCANNING Public/Granted day:2019-02-07
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