US Patent Issued to Snap on July 14 for "Active dual pixel stereo system for depth extraction" (American, Israeli, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,101, issued on July 14, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Active dual pixel stereo system for depth extraction" was invented by Robert John Hergert (Oakland, Calif.), Sagi Katz (Yokneam Ilit, Israel), Gilad Refael (Ashdod, Israel), Daniel Wagner (Vienna), Weston Welge (Boulder, Colo.) and Ramzi Zahreddine (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A miniaturized active dual pixel stereo system and method for close range depth extraction includes a projector adapted to project a locally distinct projected pattern onto an image of a scene and a dual pixel sensor including a dual pixel sensor array that generates respective...