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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2018
Oculus Vr, Llc, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Yuheng Ren, Newcastle, WA (US);
Julian Straub, Redmond, WA (US);
Shobhit Verma, Sammamish, WA (US);
Richard Andrew Newcombe, Seattle, WA (US);
Renzo De Nardi, Seattle, WA (US);
Facebook Technologies, LLC, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A sensor apparatus may include an array of protruding members that each extend outward in a different radial direction from a central axis, each protruding member including a projector that projects structured light into a local environment, one or more cameras that capture reflections of the structured light from the local environment, and another camera that captures visible-spectrum light from the local environment. The sensor apparatus may also include one or more localization devices for determining a location of the sensor apparatus. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.