Method and system for acquiring a 3-D image of a scene

Details Method and system for acquiring a 3-D image of a scene Method and system for acquiring a 3-D image of a scene

2011-05-31

2011-05-31

Alsomiri, Isam (Department: 3662)

Optics: measuring and testing

Range or remote distance finding

With photodetection

C356S005150

Reexamination Certificate

active

07952690

ABSTRACT:
For acquiring a 3-D image of a scene, the scene is illuminated with modulated light emitted by an illumination unit and imaged onto an array of lock-in pixel sensor cells, which detect the previously emitted light after it has been scattered or reflected by an object or a living being in the scene. One determines the modulation phase of the light detected at the lock-in pixel sensor cells and provides a reference modulation phase that stands in a known relationship with the modulation phase of the light at the time of the emission. Based upon the reference modulation phase and the modulation phase of the light detected at the lock-in pixel sensor cells one then calculates depth information on the scene. The modulated light is emitted by a plurality of individual light emitting devices of the illumination unit, each of the light emitting devices emitting a part of the modulated light, and the reference modulation phase is provided as an average of the modulation phases of the parts of modulated light emitted by the light emitting devices.

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