Three-dimensional image capturing device

Details Three-dimensional image capturing device Three-dimensional image capturing device

2006-06-13

2006-06-13

Ometz, David (Department: 2615)

Television

Camera, system and detail

With object or scene illumination

C356S005010

Reexamination Certificate

active

07061534

ABSTRACT:
A three-dimensional image capturing device has a center LED and peripheral LEDs which are arranged around the center LED. The center LED and peripheral LEDs irradiate distance measuring light beams to a measurement subject. The distance measurement light beams are reflected by a surface of the measurement subject, and the reflected light beams are received by an imaging device, so that distances from the imaging device to the measurement subject are sensed in accordance with the received light amount. The irradiation timings of the center LED and the peripheral LEDs are adjusted, in such a manner that, when the measurement subject is a flat plane parallel to the light receiving surface of the imaging device, the reflected light beams from all of the LEDs are simultaneously received by the imaging device.

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