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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 02, 2019
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
David Silver, Haifa, IL;
Eitan Hirsh, Ramat Hasharon, IL;
Moshe Laifenfeld, Haifa, IL;
Tal Kaitz, Kiryat Ono, IL;
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Imaging apparatus () includes a radiation source (), which emits pulsed beams () of optical radiation toward a target scene (). An array () of sensing elements outputs signals indicative of respective times of incidence of photons on the sensing elements. Objective optics () form a first image of the target scene on the array of sensing elements. An image sensor () captures a second image of the target scene. Processing and control circuitry () is configured to process the second image so as to detect a relative motion between at least one object in the target scene and the apparatus, and which is configured to construct, responsively to the signals from the array, histograms of the times of incidence of the photons on the sensing elements and to adjust the histograms responsively to the detected relative motion, and to generate a depth map of the target scene based on the adjusted histograms.