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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2012
Applicants:
Vivek K. Goyal, Cambridge, MA (US);
Ghulam Ahmed Kirmani, Cambridge, MA (US);
Inventors:
Vivek K. Goyal, Cambridge, MA (US);
Ghulam Ahmed Kirmani, Cambridge, MA (US);
Assignee:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 17/89 (2006.01); G01S 7/486 (2006.01); G01S 17/10 (2006.01); G01S 7/481 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 17/89 (2013.01); G01S 7/4866 (2013.01); G01S 17/10 (2013.01); G01S 7/4817 (2013.01);
Abstract
Depth information about a scene of interest is acquired by illuminating the scene, capturing reflected light energy from the scene with one or more photodetectors, and processing resulting signals, in at least one embodiment, a pseudo-randomly generated series of spatial light modulation patterns is used to modulate the light pulses either before or after reflection.