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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:
Feb. 14, 2023

Filed:

Jun. 04, 2020
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

James Wilson Nash, San Diego, CA (US);

Kalin Mitkov Atanassov, San Diego, CA (US);

Ioannis Nousias, San Diego, CA (US);

Mark Ian Roy Muir, San Diego, CA (US);

Sami Khawam, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/521 (2017.01); G06V 20/13 (2022.01); G06V 20/64 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/521 (2017.01); G06V 20/13 (2022.01); G06V 20/64 (2022.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for active depth sensing. An example apparatus configured to perform active depth sensing includes a projector. The projector is configured to emit a first distribution of light during a first time and emit a second distribution of light different from the first distribution of light during a second time. A set of final depth values of one or more objects in a scene is based on one or more reflections of the first distribution of light and one or more reflections of the second distribution of light. The projector may include a laser array, and the apparatus may be configured to switch between a first plurality of lasers of the laser array to emit light during the first time and a second plurality of laser to emit light during the second time.


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