Illumination light control based on orientation

    公开(公告)号:US12101859B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-24

    申请号:US17656590

    申请日:2022-03-25

    IPC分类号: H05B47/105 F21V21/084

    CPC分类号: H05B47/105 F21V21/084

    摘要: A computing system includes an illumination light source configured to emit illumination light into an external environment and an orientation sensor configured to estimate an orientation of the illumination light source relative to the external environment. The computing system includes a logic subsystem and a storage subsystem holding instructions executable by the logic subsystem to define a light restriction zone within the external environment. Based at least in part on the orientation of the illumination light source, the illumination light source is dynamically controlled to direct the illumination light toward at least a portion of the external environment outside the light restriction zone, while mitigating emission of the illumination light into the light restriction zone.

    Machine-learned depth dealiasing
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    公开(公告)号:US11620734B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-04

    申请号:US17168373

    申请日:2021-02-05

    摘要: Techniques for de-aliasing depth ambiguities included within infrared phase depth images are described herein. An illuminator emits reference light towards a target object. Some of this light is reflected back and detected. A phase image is generated based on phase differences between the reference light and the reflected light. The phase differences represent changes in depth within overlapping sinusoidal periods of the reference and reflected light. The phase image also includes ambiguities because multiple different depths within the phase image share the same phase difference value, even though these depths actually correspond to different real-world depths. The phase image is fed as input to a machine learning (“ML”) component, which is configured to de-alias the ambiguities by determining, for each pixel in the phase image, a corresponding de-aliasing interval. A depth map is generated based on the phase image and any de-aliasing intervals generated by the ML component.

    Motion compensation for a SPAD array camera

    公开(公告)号:US11580713B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-14

    申请号:US17147378

    申请日:2021-01-12

    摘要: Examples are disclosed that relate to motion compensation on a single photon avalanche detector (SPAD) array camera. One example provides a method enacted on an imaging device comprising a SPAD array camera and a motion sensor, the SPAD array camera comprising a plurality of pixels. The method comprises acquiring a plurality of subframes of image data. Each subframe of image data comprises a binary value for each pixel. Based upon motion data from the motion sensor, the method further comprises determining a change in pose of the imaging device between adjacent subframes, applying a positional offset to a current subframe based upon the motion data to align a location of a stationary imaged feature in the current subframe with a location of the stationary imaged feature in a prior subframe to create aligned subframes, summing the aligned subframes to form an image, and outputting the image.