US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 18 for "Hybrid depth imaging with sparse subject irradiation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,542, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Hybrid depth imaging with sparse subject irradiation" was invented by Abdelrehim Ahmed (Santa Clara, Calif.), John Peter Godbaz (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Mahdieh Poostchi (Dublin, Calif.), Minseok Oh (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ling Zhu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Mukhil Azhagan Mallaiyan Sathiaseelan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method enacted in a depth-imaging system comprises (a) modulating radiant output from an emitter at one or more modulation frequencies; (b) projecting the radiant output as a plurality of sparse-projection f...