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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2015
Applicant:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventors:
Werner Adam Metz, Chandler, AZ (US);
Dong-Ik Ko, McKinney, TX (US);
Assignee:
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 11/22 (2006.01); G01S 7/486 (2006.01); G01B 11/02 (2006.01); G01B 11/24 (2006.01); G01S 17/89 (2006.01); G01S 7/48 (2006.01); G01S 7/491 (2006.01); G01S 17/08 (2006.01); H04N 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/4865 (2013.01); G01B 11/026 (2013.01); G01B 11/24 (2013.01); G01S 7/48 (2013.01); G01S 7/4808 (2013.01); G01S 7/4911 (2013.01); G01S 7/4915 (2013.01); G01S 7/4918 (2013.01); G01S 17/08 (2013.01); G01S 17/89 (2013.01);
Abstract
A time-of-flight sensor device generates and analyzes a high-resolution depth map frame from a high-resolution image to determine a mode of operation for the time-of-flight sensor and an illuminator and to control the time-of-flight sensor and illuminator according to the mode of operation. A binned depth map frame can be created from a binned image from the time-of-flight sensor and combined with the high-resolution depth map frame to create a compensated depth map frame.