US Patent Issued to Waymo on Oct. 27 for "3D ToF vision system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,266, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"3D ToF vision system" was invented by Nirav Shailesh Kumar Dharia (Milpitas, Calif.), Lucian Ion (Mountain View, Calif.) and Simon Verghese (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments relate to devices, systems, and methods involving three-dimensional time-of-flight/visible image sensors. An example embodiment includes a device that includes a plurality of time of flight sensor (ToF) pixels and a plurality of visible image sensor (VIS) pixels. The device also includes a ToF communication channel configured to provide ToF image da...