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Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018

Filed:

Jul. 16, 2014
Applicant:

Philips Lighting Holding B.v., Eindhoven, NL;

Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/00 (2013.01); H04B 10/116 (2013.01); H04B 10/114 (2013.01); H05B 37/02 (2006.01); H04B 10/516 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/116 (2013.01); H04B 10/1149 (2013.01); H05B 37/0272 (2013.01); H04B 10/516 (2013.01);
Abstract

A coded light component is modulated into emitted light on one of multiple channels each having a different modulation frequency. Modulation in the light causes a receiving camera to experience an apparent temporal frequency due to sequential capture of multiple frames and an apparent spatial frequency due to sequential exposure of spatial portions within each frame. Each channel can be detected by a detection module of the camera based on a respective combination of values of the apparent temporal and spatial frequency corresponding to the respective modulation frequency. The detection module has a respective response on each channel that varies as a function of the apparent temporal frequency. The channel for modulating the coded light component is selected from amongst a predetermined set having a property that the response of the detection module on each channel will have a minimum substantially at the apparent temporal frequency of each other channel.


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