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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 15, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2009
Qingxiong Yang, Urbana, IL (US);
Kar-han Tan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Qingxiong Yang, Urbana, IL (US);
Kar-Han Tan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Producing high quality depth maps. A time of flight camera and stereo cameras of a stereo camera arrangement are mapped into a common coordinate system. A correspondence between an RGB image taken from the time of flight camera and an RGB image taken from a reference stereo camera of the stereo camera arrangement is established. Intensity values of the plurality of pixels of a stereo camera left of the reference stereo camera, a stereo camera right of the reference stereo camera and the reference stereo camera are determined. These intensity values of the stereo camera left of the reference stereo camera and the stereo camera right of the reference stereo camera are compared to the reference camera. Based on the comparing, matching intensity values are determined.