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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:
Jun. 07, 2022

Filed:

Sep. 17, 2020
Applicants:

Stmicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) Sas, Grenoble, FR;

Stmicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited, Marlow, GB;

Inventors:

Christopher Townsend, Edinburgh, GB;

Pascal Mellot, Grenoble, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 17/89 (2020.01); G01S 7/481 (2006.01); G01S 17/10 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 17/89 (2013.01); G01S 7/4816 (2013.01); G01S 17/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a method of laser safety verification for a depth map sensor, comprising illuminating, during a first illumination phase, using a laser illumination system, a first cluster of one or more first pixels of a pixel array of the depth map sensor, while not illuminating a second cluster, different from the first cluster, of one or more second pixels of the pixel array of the depth map sensor; and detecting, during the first illumination phase, a level of illumination of the second cluster.


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