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Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 20, 2018
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Inventor:

Gabor Szedo Becker, Newcastle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/04 (2006.01); H04N 5/247 (2006.01); H04N 5/28 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23206 (2013.01); H04N 5/04 (2013.01); H04N 5/247 (2013.01); H04N 5/2256 (2013.01); H04N 5/28 (2013.01);
Abstract

Time-of-flight cameras may be synchronized where the fields of view of the time-of-flight cameras overlap. The time-of-flight cameras may be programmed within intervals of time for illuminating their respective fields of view that do not conflict with one another. When a first time-of-flight camera illuminates a first field of view that overlaps with a second field of view of a second time-of-flight camera, and the second time-of-flight camera detects reflected light from the illumination, the second time-of-flight camera may determine a time to illuminate the second field of view based on the reflected light. In this manner, any number of time-of-flight cameras may be synchronized with one another without requiring a direct connection between the time-of-flight cameras.


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