Ams Ag

Ams International Ag

Daniele Perenzoni

Miguel Bruno Vaello Paños

David Stoppa

Robert Kappel

Christian Mautner

Radoslaw Marcin Gancarz

Daniel Furrer

The present disclosure describes a method and apparatus for enabling an imaging sensor to perform Time-of-Flight measurements while requiring less histogram memory and in many cases less power consumption. A light source is operated to cause multiple light emissions and a coarse/estimated distance is determined based on a first echo received based on the first light emission. A histogram is saved and a fine distance is calculated from the coarse distance and data derived from the echo of a second light emission.

Using time-of-flight and pseudo-random bit sequences to measure distance to object

A method for operating a time-of-flight sensor system includes by an array of pixels of a time-of-flight sensor of the time-of-flight sensor system, generating signal data representative of reflected light from an environment; generating an intensity representation of an object in the environment based on the signal data representative of the reflected light from the environment; determining that the intensity representation indicates that an object in the environment includes a target object; and responsive to the determining, generating a three-dimensional representation of the environment based on the data representative of the reflected light.

Three dimensional imaging with intensity information

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Daniele Perenzoni