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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 30, 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); G01B 11/14 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01); G01S 17/08 (2006.01); G01S 17/89 (2006.01); G01N 21/86 (2006.01); G01S 17/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/4868 (2013.01); G01B 11/14 (2013.01); G01S 7/4865 (2013.01); G01S 17/08 (2013.01); G01S 17/107 (2013.01); G01S 17/89 (2013.01); H04N 5/2353 (2013.01);
Abstract
A gated time of flight (GT-TOF) range camera that transmits a plurality of light pulses to illuminate features in a scene and gates ON a photosensor in the camera for one multi-exposure gate having a plurality of exposure periods following each of the plurality of light pulses to register amounts of light reflected by features in the scene from the light pulses and uses the registered amounts of light to determine distances to the features.