US Patent Issued to Orbbec on Sept. 22 for "Depth calculation method and system based on time of flight, and storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,862, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Orbbec Inc. (Shenzhen, China).

"Depth calculation method and system based on time of flight, and storage medium" was invented by Hongtao Yu (Shenzhen, China), Minrong Meng (Shenzhen, China) and Tao Gu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time-of-flight depth calculation method includes: obtaining a phase image, and obtaining, based on the phase image, a differential ratio of charge signals corresponding to reflected signals acquired by an image sensor at different times; in response to that the differential ratio of the charge signals is greater than or equal to a threshold, obta...