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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 11, 2019
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Oz Barak, Tel Aviv, IL;
James J. Reuther, San Francisco, CA (US);
Malcolm J. Northcott, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Nadav Fine, Herzliya, IL;
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Depth-sensing apparatus includes a laser, which emits pulses of optical radiation toward a scene. One or more detectors receive the optical radiation that is reflected from points in the scene and to output signals indicative of respective times of arrival of the received radiation. A scanner scans the pulses of optical radiation across the scene along successive parallel scan lines of a raster. Control and processing circuitry drives the laser to emit a succession of output sequences of the pulses with different, respective temporal spacings between the pulses within the output sequences in the succession, and matches the times of arrival of the signals due to the optical radiation reflected from the points in at least two adjacent scan lines in the raster to the temporal spacings of the output sequences in order to find respective times of flight for the points in the scene.