Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Depth acquisition device and depth acquisition method for providing a corrected depth image
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Application No.: US17152231Application Date: 2021-01-19
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Publication No.: US11373324B2Publication Date: 2022-06-28
- Inventor: Takeo Azuma , Satoshi Sato , Nobuhiko Wakai , Kohsuke Yoshioka , Noritaka Shimizu , Yoshinao Kawai , Takaaki Amada , Yoko Kawai , Takeshi Murai , Hiroki Takeuchi
- Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
- Priority: JPJP2018-182364 20180927
- Main IPC: G06T7/586
- IPC: G06T7/586 ; G06T7/536 ; G06T7/593

Abstract:
A depth acquisition device includes a memory and a processor performing: acquiring, from the memory, intensities of infrared light measured by imaging with infrared light emitted from a light source and reflected on a subject by pixels in an imaging element; generating a depth image by calculating the distance for each pixel based on the intensities; acquiring, from the memory, a visible light image generated by imaging, with visible light, the substantially same scene from the substantially same viewpoint at the substantially same timing as those of the infrared light image; detecting a lower reflection region showing an object having a lower reflectivity from the infrared light image in accordance with the infrared light image and the visible light image; correcting a corresponding lower reflection region in the depth image in accordance with the visible light image; and outputting the depth image with the corrected lower reflection region.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210142500A1 DEPTH ACQUISITION DEVICE AND DEPTH ACQUISITION METHOD Public/Granted day:2021-05-13
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