Iee International Electronics and Engineering S.a.

Marta Castillo Franco

Bruno Mirbach

Thomas Solignac

Frédéric Grandidier

Romuald Ginhoux

A method of recording 3D images of a scene based on the time-of-flight principle is described. The method includes illuminating a scene by emitting light carrying an intensity modulation, imaging the scene onto a pixel array using an optical system, detecting, in each pixel, intensity-modulated light reflected from the scene onto the pixel and determining, for each pixel, a distance value based on the phase of light detected in the pixel. The determination of the distance values includes a phase-sensitive de-convolution of the scene imaged onto the pixel array such that phase errors induced by light spreading in the optical system are compensated for.

Recording of 3D images of a scene with phase de-convolution

Method for determining the position of an object point in a scene from a digital image thereof acquired through an optical system is presented. The image comprises a set of image points corresponding to object points and the position of the object points are determined by means of predetermined vectors associated with the image points. The predetermined vector represents the inverted direction of a light ray in the object space that will produce this image point through the optical system comprising all distortion effects of the optical system.

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Marta Castillo Franco