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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2022
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Sergio Ortiz Egea, San Jose, CA (US);
Riaz Imdad Ali, Fremont, CA (US);
Michael Scott Fenton, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Onur Can Akkaya, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A camera system. The camera system includes a sensor array; an infrared (IR) illumination system configured to emit active IR light in an IR light sub-band; a spectral illumination system configured to emit active spectral light in a spectral light sub-band; one or more logic machines; and one or more storage machines. The storage machines hold instructions executable by the one or more logic machines to address the sensor array to acquire an ambient image; based on at least the ambient image, activate the IR illumination system and address the sensor array to acquire an actively-IR-illuminated depth image; and based on at least the actively-IR-illuminated depth image, activate the spectral illumination system and address the sensor array to acquire an actively-spectrally-illuminated spectral image.