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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2018
Filed:
May. 17, 2015
Applicant:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc., Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Michael Hall, Bellevue, WA (US);
Algird Gudaitis, Fall City, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC., Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/486 (2006.01); G01S 17/10 (2006.01); G01S 17/36 (2006.01); G01S 7/491 (2006.01); G01S 17/89 (2006.01); G01S 7/481 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/4865 (2013.01); G01S 7/4811 (2013.01); G01S 7/4915 (2013.01); G01S 17/10 (2013.01); G01S 17/107 (2013.01); G01S 17/36 (2013.01); G01S 17/89 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10028 (2013.01);
Abstract
A GT-TOF camera that illuminates a scene with a train of light pulses to determine amounts of light reflected from the transmitted light pulses by features in a scene for each of N different exposure periods and determines a distance to a feature in the scene responsive to a direction in an N-dimensional space of an N-dimensional vector defined by the amounts of reflected light determined for the feature for the N gates.