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US 12,647,550 B2Granted
Time-of-flight camera system
AssigneeSony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
InventorsDaniel Van Nieuwenhove, Julien Thollot
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Abstract
The invention relates to a TOF camera system comprising several cameras, at least one of the cameras being a TOF camera, wherein the cameras are assembled on a common substrate and are imaging the same scene simultaneously and wherein at least two cameras are driven by different driving parameters.
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A camera system comprising:
- at least one first camera, the first camera being a depth information capturing camera configured to obtain distance information from the first camera to a scene;
- and
- a second camera, the second camera being an imaging camera, the at least one first camera and second cameras comprising respective first lens and second lens and respective first image sensor and second image sensors,
- wherein the at least one first camera and the second camera are arranged on a common support, and
- wherein a resolution of an image obtained by the second camera is different than the resolution of the distance information obtained by the first camera, the camera system comprising circuitry configured to perform fusion of the distance information and the image to form a computed output image.
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A method comprising:
- obtaining distance information from a scene via least one first camera, the at least one first camera being a depth information capturing camera;
- and
- obtaining an image via a second camera wherein a resolution of the image obtained by the second camera is different than the resolution of the distance information obtained by the at least one first camera, computing an output image by fusion of the distance information and the image, wherein the second camera is an imaging camera, the at least one first camera and second cameras comprising respective first lens and second lens and respective first image sensor and second image sensors, and wherein the at least one first camera and the second camera are arranged on a common support.
A camera system comprising:
- at least one first camera, the first camera being a combined color and infrared camera configured to obtain distance information from a scene to the first camera;
- and
- a second camera, the second camera being an imaging camera, the at least one first camera and second cameras comprising respective first lens and second lens and respective first image sensor and second image sensors,
- wherein the at least one first camera and the second camera are arranged on a common support, and
- wherein a resolution of an image obtained by the second camera is different than the resolution of the combined color and distance information obtained by the first camera, the camera system comprising circuitry configured to perform fusion of the combined color and distance information and the image obtained by the second camera to form a computed output image.
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