Invention Application
- Patent Title: COORDINATION OF MULTIPLE STRUCTURED LIGHT-BASED 3D IMAGE DETECTORS
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Application No.: US14959000Application Date: 2015-12-04
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Publication No.: US20170163969A1Publication Date: 2017-06-08
- Inventor: Harm Stefan Cronie
- Applicant: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLC
- Main IPC: H04N13/02
- IPC: H04N13/02 ; G06K9/46 ; G01C11/06 ; H04N13/00

Abstract:
Technologies are generally described for coordination of structured light-based image detectors. In some examples, one or more structured light sources may be configured to project sets of points onto the scene. The sets of points may be arranged into disjoint sets of geometrical shapes such as lines, where each geometrical shape includes a subset of the points projected by an illumination source. A relative position and or a color of the points in each geometrical shape may encode an identification code with which each illumination source may be identified. Thus, even when the point clouds projected by each of the illumination sources overlap, the geometrical shapes may still be detected, and thereby a corresponding illumination source may be identified. A depth map may then be estimated based on stereo vision principles or depth-from-focus principles by one or more image detectors.
Public/Granted literature
- US10257498B2 Coordination of multiple structured light-based 3D image detectors Public/Granted day:2019-04-09
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