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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2022

Filed:

Feb. 08, 2014
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Adam G. Kirk, Renton, WA (US);

Christoph Rhemann, Cambridge, GB;

Oliver A. Whyte, Cambridge, MA (US);

Shahram Izadi, Cambridge, GB;

Sing Bing Kang, Redmond, WA (US);

Andreas Georgiou, Cambridge, GB;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 13/363 (2018.01); G01B 11/16 (2006.01); H04N 5/33 (2006.01); H04N 9/31 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 13/363 (2018.05); G01B 11/167 (2013.01); H04N 5/33 (2013.01); H04N 9/3179 (2013.01);
Abstract

The subject disclosure is directed towards controlling the intensity of illumination of a scene or part of a scene, including to conserve illumination power. Quality of depth data in stereo images may be measured with different illumination states; environmental conditions, such as ambient light, natural texture may affect the quality. The illumination intensity may be controllably varied to obtain sufficient quality while conserving power. The control may be directed to one or more regions of interest corresponding to an entire scene or part of a scene.


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