US Patent Issued to Varjo Technologies on July 21 for "Pass through using common image sensor for colour and depth" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,549, issued on July 21, was assigned to Varjo Technologies Oy (Helsinki).

"Pass through using common image sensor for colour and depth" was invented by Mikko Ollila (Tampere, Finland) and Mikko Strandborg (Hangonkyla, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an imaging system with image sensor and processor(s). The image sensor has a plurality of photo-sensitive cells and a colour filter array. The processor(s) is configured to read out unprocessed colour data from those photo-sensitive cells that correspond to the colour filters of the at least three different colours; generate coarse depth data by processing data read ou...