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Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2022

Filed:

Jun. 05, 2020
Applicant:

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

Inventor:

Andreas Assmann, Edinburgh, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 13/239 (2018.01); H04N 13/125 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 13/239 (2018.05); H04N 13/125 (2018.05);
Abstract

A method includes emitting a pattern of transmitted light into a three-dimensional environment from an optical transmitter and receiving reflected light from the pattern of transmitted light at an optical receiver. The method includes identifying light-sensitive pixels of that are stimulated by from the pattern of reflected light and generating an up-sampled matrix with subsections that correspond to light-sensitive pixels. The method includes sparsely populating subsections of the up-sampled matrix with a pattern of non-zero entries and imaging the three-dimensional environment.


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