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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2011
Filed:
May. 17, 2006
Ramesh Raskar, Cambridge, MA (US);
Hideaki Nii, Cambridge, MA (US);
Jay W. Summet, Atlanta, GA (US);
Yong Zhao, Providence, RI (US);
Paul H. Dietz, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Jonathan Westhues, Cambridge, MA (US);
Michael Noland, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Erich Bruns, Saarburg, DE;
Shree Nayar, New York, NY (US);
Vlad Branzoi, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Ramesh Raskar, Cambridge, MA (US);
Hideaki Nii, Cambridge, MA (US);
Jay W. Summet, Atlanta, GA (US);
Yong Zhao, Providence, RI (US);
Paul H. Dietz, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Jonathan Westhues, Cambridge, MA (US);
Michael Noland, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Erich Bruns, Saarburg, DE;
Shree Nayar, New York, NY (US);
Vlad Branzoi, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
An optical receiver is arranged at a location in a scene. The optical receiver includes a photo sensor configured to detect spatio-temporal modulated optical signals directed at the scene from a set of spatially dispersed optical transmitters, and to convert the optical signals from each of the optical transmitters to a corresponding electronic signal. The electronic signals can be analyzed to determine geometric properties of the location in the scene.