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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2010
Applicants:
Cristiano Niclass, Clarens, CH;
Edoardo Charbon, Echandens, CH;
Julian Nolan, Pully, CH;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2006.01); G01S 7/481 (2006.01); G01S 17/89 (2006.01); G06F 3/042 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0421 (2013.01); G01S 7/4814 (2013.01); G01S 17/89 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention concerns a time-of-flight based imaging system having a photon emitter used as an illumination source, a photon sensor, and an electronic system for delivering a signal depending on the reception time of photons by said photon detector. The electronic display is used as the photonic source.