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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2015
Schepens Eye Research Institute, Boston, MA (US);
Eliezer Peli, Boston, MA (US);
Jae-Hyun Jung, Boston, MA (US);
Schepens Eye Research Institute, Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
The disclosure features systems for providing information to a user about the user's environment, the system featuring a detection apparatus configured to obtain image information about the environment, where the image information corresponds to information at multiple distances relative to a position of the user within the environment, and an electronic processor configured to obtain focal plane distance information defining a set of one or more distance values relative to the position of the user within the environment, construct one or more confocal images of the environment, from the image information and the set of one or more distance values, wherein each of the one or more confocal images corresponds to a different distance value and comprises a set of pixels, and transform the one or more confocal images to form one or more representative images comprising fewer pixels and a lower dynamic range.