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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 11, 2014
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Ivan Dokmanic, Lausanne, CH;

Ivan J. Tashev, Kirkland, WA (US);

Thomas M. Soemo, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 15/88 (2006.01); G01S 15/89 (2006.01); G01S 3/74 (2006.01); G01S 7/526 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 15/89 (2013.01); G01S 3/74 (2013.01); G01S 7/526 (2013.01);
Abstract

Examples are disclosed herein that relate to depth imaging techniques using ultrasound One example provides an ultrasonic depth sensing system configured to, for an image frame, emit an ultrasonic pulse from each of a plurality of transducers, receive a reflection of each ultrasonic pulse at a microphone array, perform transmit beamforming and also receive beamforming computationally after receiving the reflections, form a depth image, and output the depth image for the image frame.


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