SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR IMPLEMENTING MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD IMAGE BINARIZATION IN A CODED LIGHT RANGE CAMERA

    公开(公告)号:US20170131090A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-05-11

    申请号:US14934599

    申请日:2015-11-06

    Abstract: In accordance with disclosed embodiments, there are provided systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing maximum likelihood image binarization in a coded light range camera. For instance, a depth camera is described having therein a projector to project a collection of planes, each at a different angle of projection, onto a scene via a plurality of coded pattern images, each of the coded pattern images having encoded therein via a plurality of stripes, the angle of projection for the plane of projection within which the respective coded pattern image is projected; a detector to capture the plurality of coded pattern images from the scene; a processing component to output a bit value for each pixel in the captured plurality of coded pattern images based on the pixel captured and based further on a patch of neighboring pixels surrounding the pixel; a decoder to decode each of the plurality of coded pattern images based on the bit values output by the processing component to determine the angle of projection for the corresponding plane of projection; and a triangulator to determine a position of an object in the scene based on an intersection of the determined angle of projection for the corresponding plane of projection with a geometric ray originating from the detector that detected the plurality of the coded pattern images. Other related embodiments are disclosed.

    RANGE ESTIMATION FOR LIGHT DETECTING AND RANGING (LIDAR) SYSTEMS

    公开(公告)号:US20210116569A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-22

    申请号:US17133291

    申请日:2020-12-23

    Abstract: Example range estimation apparatus disclosed herein include a first signal processor to estimate a signal power parameter and a noise power parameter of a LIDAR system based on first data to be output from a light capturing device of the LIDAR system. Disclosed example range estimation apparatus also include a second signal processor to generate templates corresponding to different possible propagation delays associated with second data to be output from the light capturing device, the second data associated with a modulated light beam projected by the LIDAR system, the templates generated based on the signal power parameter and the noise power parameter, and the second data to have a higher sampling rate and a lower quantization resolution than the first data. In some examples, the second signal processor is also to determine, based on the templates, an estimated propagation delay associated with the second data.

    Morphological and geometric edge filters for edge enhancement in depth images

    公开(公告)号:US09852495B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-12-26

    申请号:US14978429

    申请日:2015-12-22

    CPC classification number: G06T5/002 G06T2207/20036 G06T2207/20192

    Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating three-dimensional (3D) depth imaging systems, and morphological and geometric filters for edge enhancement in depth images at computing devices according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes detecting an input digital image of an object, the digital image comprising data pixels contaminated by noise and confidence values corresponding to the data pixels, and computing a morphological filter by matching the confidence pixels in the input digital image with a set of matching templates, and using a set of masking templates to determine the data pixels and confidence pixels in the filtered image. The method further include computing an edge filter by performing computation of distances between the data pixels along a plurality of directions to determine an edge direction, and determining the data pixels and and the confidence pixels in a filtered image based on the edge direction. The method may further include applying at least one of the morphological filter and the edge filter to filter the digital image.

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