ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,673, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Optically offset three-dimensional imager" was invented by Jeffrey Matthew Kempf (Dallas) and Vikrant R. Bhakta (Dallas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described examples include an imager includes a light source; a spatial light modulator to receive light from the light source and to provide patterned light to illuminate an object; a sensor to receive a first and an offset reflected light from reflection of the patterned light off an object; and a processor to receive sensed images of the first reflected light and the offset reflected light and apply a deconvol...