US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on July 28 for "Structured light projector" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,548, issued on July 28, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Structured light projector" was invented by Srikanth Gurrapu (Frisco, Texas), Yangxi Wang (Plano, Texas) and Zhongyan Sheng (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described examples include an apparatus includes a spatial light modulator configured to receive input light; and modulate the input light, to produce modulated light, where the modulated light has a pixel pattern of dark pixels and bright pixels. The apparatus also includes a diffractive optical element optically coupled to the spatial light modulator, the diffractive optical element configured...