Time-of-flight apparatus and method
AssigneeSony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
InventorsQing Ding, Ward Van Der Tempel
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Abstract
A time-of-flight apparatus having a light detector for detecting light reflected from a scene, wherein the light detector has at least one light detection element; and circuitry configured to acquire light detection events for the at least one light detection element at selected points of time of a set of predetermined number of consecutive times, wherein the selection of the points of time is based on a time compressive sampling.
Claims20
A time-of-flight apparatus, comprising:
- a light detector for detecting light reflected from a scene, wherein the light detector has at least one light detection element;
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- circuitry configured to:
- acquire light detection events for the at least one light detection element at selected points of time of a set of predetermined number of consecutive times, wherein the selection of the points of time is based on a time compressive sampling.
A method for controlling a time-of-flight apparatus including a light detector for detecting light reflected from a scene, wherein the light detector has at least one light detection element, the method comprising:
- acquiring light detection events for the at least one light detection element at selected points of time of a set of predetermined number of consecutive times, wherein the selection of the points of time is based on a time compressive sampling.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.