ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,094, issued on April 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Active depth sensing" was invented by Jian Ma (San Diego), Shen-Ge Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Liming Wu (West Lafayette, Ind.), Matthieu Jean Olivier Dupre (La Jolla, Calif.) and Sergiu Radu Goma (Sedona, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described for depth sensing. For example, a method can include obtaining a first depth image of a scene. The first depth image of the scene is associated with a first illumination configuration including illuminating the scene with a first type of illumination. The method can include obtaining a second...