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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2021
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ozkan Celik, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Patricia A. Schulze, Giddings, TX (US);
Gregory J. Freeman, Austin, TX (US);
Paul Z. Wirth, Kalispell, MT (US);
Tommaso Vercesi, Aschaffenburg, DE;
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A depth measuring apparatus includes a camera assembly configured to capture a plurality of images of a target at a plurality of distances from the target. The depth measuring apparatus further includes a controller configured to, for each of a plurality of regions within the plurality of images: determine corresponding gradient values within the plurality of images; determine a corresponding maximum gradient value from the corresponding gradient values; and determine, based on the corresponding maximum gradient value, a depth measurement for a region of the plurality of regions.