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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2016
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Cristiano L. Niclass, San Jose, CA (US);
Alexander Shpunt, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Gennadiy A. Agranov, San Jose, CA (US);
Matthew C. Waldon, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mina A Rezk, Cupertino, CA (US);
Thierry Oggier, San Jose, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An electro-optical device includes a laser light source, which emits at least one beam of light pulses, a beam steering device, which transmits and scans the at least one beam across a target scene, and an array of sensing elements. Each sensing element outputs a signal indicative of a time of incidence of a single photon on the sensing element. Light collection optics image the target scene scanned by the transmitted beam onto the array. Circuitry is coupled to actuate the sensing elements only in a selected region of the array and to sweep the selected region over the array in synchronization with scanning of the at least one beam.