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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2023
Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Andrew Beaulieu, Somerville, MA (US);
Naveen Suresh Kuppuswamy, Arlington, MA (US);
Jessica Yin, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
Deformable sensors having a stereo depth sensor and an infrared sensor and methods of their use are disclosed. In one embodiment, a deformable sensor includes an enclosure having a housing and a deformable membrane, wherein the deformable membrane is transparent to a wavelength band in the infrared spectrum, a stereo depth sensor that is disposed within the enclosure and is configured to view an underside of the deformable membrane, and output a deformation region of the deformable membrane as a result of contact with an object, wherein the deformation region includes depth information, and an infrared sensor that is disposed within the enclosure and is configured to view the object through the deformable membrane when the object contacts the deformable membrane and output a contact patch region corresponding with a region of the deformable membrane that contacts the object.