Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus for demultiplexing illumination
- Patent Title (中): 用于解复用照明的方法和装置
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Application No.: US14690159Application Date: 2015-04-17
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Publication No.: US09451141B2Publication Date: 2016-09-20
- Inventor: Achuta Kadambi , Ayush Bhandari , Ramesh Raskar
- Applicant: Achuta Kadambi , Ayush Bhandari , Ramesh Raskar
- Applicant Address: US MA Cambridge
- Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Current Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Cambridge
- Agent Stephen R. Otis
- Main IPC: H04N5/225
- IPC: H04N5/225 ; H04N5/222 ; G01S17/89 ; G01S7/481

Abstract:
In illustrative implementations of this invention, an imaging system includes multiple light sources that illuminate a scene, and also includes a lock-in time of flight camera. While the scene is illuminated by these light sources, each of the light sources is amplitude-modulated by a different modulation pattern, and a reference signal is applied to the lock-in time-of-flight camera. The modulation patterns and the reference signal are carefully chosen such that the imaging system is able to disentangle, in real time, the respective contributions of the different light sources, and to compute, in real-time, depth of the scene. In some cases, the modulation signals for the light sources are orthogonal to each other and the reference signal is broadband. In some cases, the modulation codes for the light sources and the reference code are optimal codes that are determined by an optimization algorithm.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150304534A1 Methods and Apparatus for Demultiplexing Illumination Public/Granted day:2015-10-22
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