Sensing Apparatus and Method
AssigneeUniversity Court of the University of St Andrews
InventorsAaron Quigley, Hui Shyong Yeo, David Harris-Birtill
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Abstract
A method comprises positioning a display screen of a mobile device and a surface of interest such that the display screen of the mobile device faces the surface of interest; emitting light by the display screen, wherein at least part of the emitted light is reflected by the surface of interest; receiving, by a camera of the mobile device, at least part of the light emitted by the display screen and reflected from the surface of interest thereby to generate at least one image; and processing the at least one image to determine at least one property of the surface of interest.
Claims21
A method comprising:
- positioning a display screen of a mobile device and a surface of interest such that the display screen of the mobile device faces the surface of interest;
- emitting light by the display screen, wherein at least part of the emitted light is reflected by the surface of interest;
- receiving, by a camera of the mobile device, at least part of the light emitted by the display screen and reflected from the surface of interest thereby to generate at least one image;
- and processing the at least one image to determine at least one property of the surface of interest.
An apparatus comprising:
- a mobile device comprising a display screen configured to emit light and a camera configured to receive light emitted from the display screen and reflected from a surface of interest, thereby to generate at least one image;
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- a processor configured to process the at least one image to determine at least one property of the surface of interest.
A method comprising:
- positioning a light source of a mobile device and a surface of interest such that the display screen of the mobile device faces the surface of interest;
- emitting light by the light source, wherein at least part of the emitted light is reflected by the surface of interest;
- receiving, by the camera of the mobile device, at least part of the light emitted by the display screen and reflected from the surface of interest thereby to generate at least one image;
- and processing the at least one image to determine at least one property of the surface of interest.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.