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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2013
Applicant:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Emad Barsoum, Sammamish, WA (US);
Craig Peeper, Kirkland, WA (US);
Assignee:
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 15/00 (2006.01); H04N 13/00 (2006.01); G01S 17/89 (2006.01); G01S 7/491 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 13/0018 (2013.01); G01S 7/4912 (2013.01); G01S 17/89 (2013.01);
Abstract
A scene is illuminated with modulated illumination light that reflects from surfaces in the scene as modulated reflection light. Each of a plurality of pixels of a depth camera receive the modulated reflection light and observe a phase difference between the modulated illumination light and the modulated reflection light. For each of the plurality of pixels, an edginess of that pixel is recognized, and the phase difference of that pixel is smoothed as a function of the edginess of that pixel.