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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2024
Torc Robotics, Inc., Blacksburg, VA (US);
Felix Heide, New York City, NY (US);
Mario Bijelic, Frankfurt, DE;
Samuel Brucker, Hardthausen am Kocher, DE;
Torc Robotics, Inc., Blacksburg, VA (US);
Abstract
The system related to a gated camera stereo system, a red-clear-clear-blue (RCCB) camera, at least one memory, and at least one processor communicatively coupled with the at least one memory. The processor is configured to: control the gated camera stereo system to emit a pulse of light at a predetermined wavelength, control a detector of the gated camera stereo system to capture light reflected from a scene after a preset time delay, The processor embeds depth data into two-dimensional gated images using a gate function based upon the captured light by the detector of the gated camera stereo system, control the RCCB camera to capture passive high dynamic range (HDR) images, extract features corresponding to the gated images and the passive HDR images, and fuse the extracted features corresponding to the gated images and the passive HDR images by cross-spectral matching for depth estimation.