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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2014
Applicant:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Zhanping Xu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Travis Perry, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 3/08 (2006.01); G01S 17/32 (2006.01); G01S 17/36 (2006.01); G01S 17/89 (2006.01); G01S 7/491 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 17/32 (2013.01); G01S 7/4915 (2013.01); G01S 17/36 (2013.01); G01S 17/89 (2013.01);
Abstract
A CW-TOF camera that uses a piecewise constant or linear discretized indicator function of first and second modulation frequencies of light that the camera transmits to illuminate a scene and a round trip time tfor light from and back to the camera for features in the scene to disambiguate wrapped phase shifts that the camera acquires for the features.