US Patent Issued to Samsung Electro-Mechanics on March 17 for "Camera apparatus with integrated heterogeneous video" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,474, issued on March 17, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Camera apparatus with integrated heterogeneous video" was invented by Young Seo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dae Seob Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and In Taek Song (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera apparatus includes a two-dimensional (2D) light source to generate first light for 2D imaging and to irradiate the first light to an object; a three-dimensional (3D) light source to generate second light for 3D imaging and to irradiate the object; a camera sensor to perform a time division mode operation which...