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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2017
Applicant:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventor:
Zhanping Xu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 3/08 (2006.01); G01S 17/89 (2006.01); G01S 17/32 (2006.01); G01S 7/497 (2006.01); G01S 7/491 (2006.01); G01S 7/493 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 17/89 (2013.01); G01S 7/493 (2013.01); G01S 7/497 (2013.01); G01S 7/4915 (2013.01); G01S 17/32 (2013.01); H04N 5/2256 (2013.01);
Abstract
A continuous wave time of flight (CW-TOF) camera operable to determine distances to features in a scene that are corrected for light that the camera transmits that is back scattered to a photosensor in the camera by structural features of the camera.