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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2013
Fiftythree, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Thomas C. Arends, Bellevue, WA (US);
Nicholas E. Bratt, Edmonds, WA (US);
John K. Ikeda, Seattle, WA (US);
Jonathan R. Harris, Redmond, WA (US);
Georg F. Petschnigg, New York, NY (US);
FiftyThree, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a housing and an image sensor that is coupled to the housing. The apparatus also includes a non-imaging optical system coupled to the housing that can output light to a surface and produce a scattered light component and a specular reflected light component. The image sensor and the non-imaging optical system are collectively configured in such a manner that during operation, the image sensor receives from a surface (1) at least a portion of the scattered light component and not the specular reflected light component or (2) at least a portion of the scattered light component having a magnitude and at least a portion of the specular reflective light component having a magnitude less than the magnitude of the portion of the scattered light component.