US Patent Issued to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives on March 3 for "Device of acquisition of a 2D image and of a depth image of a scene" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,851, issued on March 3, was assigned to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (Paris).

"Device of acquisition of a 2D image and of a depth image of a scene" was invented by Francois Deneuville (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device of acquisition of a 2D image and of a depth image, including: first sensor formed inside and on top of a first semiconductor substrate including a front surface and a rear surface, the first sensor including a plurality of 2D image pixels and a plurality of transmissive windows, each transmissive window including a portion of the first substrate and an amorphous ...