Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Folded optic passive depth sensing system
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Application No.: US15484637Application Date: 2017-04-11
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Publication No.: US09986223B2Publication Date: 2018-05-29
- Inventor: Sergiu Radu Goma , Todor Georgiev Georgiev , Biay-Cheng Hseih , Zheng-wu Li , Wen-Yu Sun
- Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Main IPC: H04N13/02
- IPC: H04N13/02 ; G02B13/02 ; G02B17/08 ; G03B35/10 ; G02B3/00 ; H04N5/374 ; H04N5/376 ; H04N5/378 ; G02B27/22 ; H01L49/00 ; H04N5/225

Abstract:
Certain aspects relate to systems and techniques for folded optic stereoscopic imaging, wherein a number of folded optic paths each direct a different one of a corresponding number of stereoscopic images toward a portion of a single image sensor. Each folded optic path can include a set of optics including a first light folding surface positioned to receive light propagating from a scene along a first optical axis and redirect the light along a second optical axis, a second light folding surface positioned to redirect the light from the second optical axis to a third optical axis, and lens elements positioned along at least the first and second optical axes and including a first subset having telescopic optical characteristics and a second subset lengthening the optical path length. The sensor can be a three-dimensionally stacked backside illuminated sensor wafer and reconfigurable instruction cell array processing wafer that performs depth processing.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170359566A1 FOLDED OPTIC PASSIVE DEPTH SENSING SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2017-12-14
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