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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2016
Fiftythree, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Thomas C. Arends, Bellevue, WA (US);
Nicholas E. Bratt, Edmonds, WA (US);
John K. Ikeda, Seattle, WA (US);
Jonathan R. Harris, Redmond, WA (US);
Georg F. Petschnigg, New York, NY (US);
FiftyThree, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a housing and an image sensor that is coupled to the housing and has a field of view. The apparatus also includes a non-imaging optical system coupled to the housing and disposed outside of the field of view of the image sensor. The non-imaging optical system can output diffuse light in a set of directions to a surface to produce scattered light. The image sensor and the non-imaging optical system are collectively configured such that during operation, the image sensor receives at least a portion of the scattered light.