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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2021
Stmicroelectronics France, Montrouge, FR;
Stmicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited, Marlow, GB;
Stmicroelectronics, Inc., Coppell, TX (US);
Olivier Pothier, Sceaux, FR;
Philippe Legeard, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Donald Baxter, Stirling, GB;
Edward Hawkins, Edinburgh, GB;
STMicroeletronics France, Montrouge, FR;
STMicroeletronics Inc., Coppell, TX (US);
STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited, Marlow, GB;
Abstract
A method can be used to detect the presence an object within a field of view of a time-of-flight sensor. A histogram generated by the time-of-flight sensor is obtained. The histogram includes a number of bins associating a number of detected photons to a given acquisition time. A portion of the bins of the histogram is transformed into points in a transformed domain that features a first area containing only points associated to bins representative of the presence of the object and a second area having only points associated to bins not representative of the presence of the object. The bins of the histogram representative of the presence of the object are identified from the points located in the first area.