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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2019
Applicant:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Onur Can Akkaya, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Cyrus Soli Bamji, Freemont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/521 (2017.01); G01S 7/481 (2006.01); G01S 7/4863 (2020.01); G01S 17/10 (2020.01); G01S 17/42 (2006.01); G01S 17/18 (2020.01); G01S 17/32 (2020.01); G01S 17/89 (2020.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01); H04N 5/445 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/521 (2017.01); G01S 7/4817 (2013.01); G01S 7/4863 (2013.01); G01S 17/10 (2013.01); G01S 17/18 (2020.01); G01S 17/32 (2013.01); G01S 17/42 (2013.01); G01S 17/89 (2013.01); H04N 5/2256 (2013.01); H04N 5/2354 (2013.01); H04N 5/44504 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10028 (2013.01);
Abstract
An active illumination range camera comprising illumination and imaging systems that is operable to provide a range image of a scene in the imaging system's field of view (FOV) by partitioning the range camera FOV into sub-FOVs, and controlling the illumination and imaging systems to sequentially illuminate and image portions of the scene located in the respective sub-FOVs.