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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:
Jan. 24, 2023

Filed:

Dec. 03, 2019
Applicant:

Ams International Ag, Jona, CH;

Inventors:

Miguel Bruno Vaello Paños, Eindhoven, NL;

Daniele Perenzoni, Eindhoven, NL;

David Stoppa, Eindhoven, NL;

Radoslaw Marcin Gancarz, Eindhoven, NL;

Assignee:

AMS INTERNATIONAL AG, Rapperswil, CH;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06V 20/64 (2022.01); H04N 13/207 (2018.01); H04N 13/254 (2018.01); G01S 17/894 (2020.01); G01S 7/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06V 20/64 (2022.01); G01S 7/4802 (2013.01); G01S 17/894 (2020.01); H04N 13/207 (2018.05); H04N 13/254 (2018.05); G06V 2201/121 (2022.01);
Abstract

A method for operating a time-of-flight sensor system includes by an array of pixels of a time-of-flight sensor of the time-of-flight sensor system, generating signal data representative of reflected light from an environment; generating an intensity representation of an object in the environment based on the signal data representative of the reflected light from the environment; determining that the intensity representation indicates that an object in the environment includes a target object; and responsive to the determining, generating a three-dimensional representation of the environment based on the data representative of the reflected light.


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