US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Aug. 11 for "Increasing uniformity of illumination of a region of a local area by an illuminator including an array of light sources" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,734, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Increasing uniformity of illumination of a region of a local area by an illuminator including an array of light sources" was invented by Gregory Cohoon (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Scott Lerner (Redmond, Wash.) and Harish Venkataraman (Buckley, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A depth camera assembly includes an illuminator that dynamically illuminates different regions of a local area. The illuminator comprises an array of light sources, such as a vertical-cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) array, and a lens assembly. The array of light sou...