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Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2020

Filed:

Feb. 07, 2019
Applicant:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);

Inventors:

Guy Satat, Cambridge, MA (US);

Matthew Tancik, Albuquerque, NM (US);

Ramesh Raskar, Cambridge, MA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); B60Q 1/00 (2006.01); B60Q 1/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/0023 (2013.01); B60Q 1/085 (2013.01); G06K 9/00805 (2013.01); G06K 9/00825 (2013.01); B60Q 2300/312 (2013.01);
Abstract

A pulsed laser may illuminate a scene that is obscured by dense, dynamic and heterogeneous fog. Light may reflect back to a time-resolved camera. Each pixel of the camera may detect a single photon during each frame. The imaging system may accurately determine reflectance and depth of the fog-obscured target, without any calibration or prior knowledge of the scene depth. The imaging system may perform a probabilistic algorithm that exploits the fact that times of arrival of photons reflected from fog have a Gamma distribution that is different than the Gaussian distribution of times of arrival of photons reflected from the target. The probabilistic algorithm may take into account times of arrival of all types of measured photons, including scattered and un-scattered photons.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Satat, Guy. (2020). Methods and apparatus for imaging through fog (U.S. Patent No. 10752158). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/10752158

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