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US 2022/0034651 A1Published application
Energy optimized imaging system with synchronized dynamic control of directable beam light source and reconfigurably masked photo-sensor
AssigneesCarnegie Mellon University, The Governing Council of the University of Toronto
InventorsSrinivasa Narasimhan, Supreeth Achar, Matthew O'Toole, Kiriakos Neoklis Kutulakos
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Abstract
An energy optimized imaging system that includes a light source that has the ability to illuminate specific pixels in a scene, and a sensor that has the ability to capture light with specific pixels of its sensor matrix, temporally synchronized such that the sensor captures light only when the light source is illuminating pixels in the scene.
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A system for capturing images of a scene comprising:
- a directable light source for illuminating a portion of the scene;
- a sensor configurable for capturing light from the illuminated portion of the scene;
- and
- a controller performing the functions of:
- determining a sequence of portions of the scene to be illuminated;
- directing the sensor to sequentially capture light from the sequence of portions;
- and
- directing the directable light source to sequentially illuminate the sequence of portions;
- wherein the sensor is a time-of-flight sensor.
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A system for capturing images of a scene comprising:
- a directable light source for illuminating a portion of the scene;
- a sensor configurable for capturing light from the illuminated portion of the scene;
- and
- a controller performing the functions of:
- determining a sequence of portions of the scene to be illuminated;
- directing the sensor to sequentially capture light from the sequence of portions;
- and
- directing the directable light source to sequentially illuminate the sequence of portions;
- wherein the sensor is a selected from a group consisting of a dynamic vision sensor, a flash LIDAR a CMOS sensor and a CCD sensor.
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