US 11,863,734 B2
Time-of-flight camera system
Daniel Van Nieuwenhove, Hofstade (BE); and Julien Thollot, Woluwe-Saint-Lambert (BE)
Assigned to Sony Depthsensing Solutions SA/NV, Brussels (BE)
Filed by Sony Depthsensing Solutions SA/NV, Brussels (BE)
Filed on Nov. 9, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/522,863.
Application 16/460,049 is a division of application No. 14/904,554, granted, now 10,397,552, previously published as PCT/EP2014/079304, filed on Dec. 24, 2014.
Application 17/522,863 is a continuation of application No. 16/843,346, filed on Apr. 8, 2020, granted, now 11,172,186.
Application 16/843,346 is a continuation of application No. 16/460,049, filed on Jul. 2, 2019, granted, now 10,638,118.
Claims priority of application No. 13199564 (EP), filed on Dec. 24, 2013.
Prior Publication US 2022/0070436 A1, Mar. 3, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G01C 3/08 (2006.01); H04N 13/02 (2006.01); H04N 13/128 (2018.01); H04N 13/243 (2018.01); H04N 13/246 (2018.01); H04N 13/257 (2018.01); H04N 13/271 (2018.01); H04N 13/122 (2018.01); H04N 13/207 (2018.01); G01S 17/86 (2020.01); G01S 17/894 (2020.01); H04N 25/40 (2023.01); H04N 13/00 (2018.01)
CPC H04N 13/02 (2013.01) [G01S 17/86 (2020.01); G01S 17/894 (2020.01); H04N 13/122 (2018.05); H04N 13/128 (2018.05); H04N 13/207 (2018.05); H04N 13/243 (2018.05); H04N 13/246 (2018.05); H04N 13/257 (2018.05); H04N 13/271 (2018.05); H04N 25/41 (2023.01); H04N 2013/0081 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sensor system comprising:
a plurality of sensors, at least one of the plurality of sensors, a first sensor, being a time-of-flight (TOF) sensor configured to obtain depthmap information of a scene, and a second sensor being configured to obtain image information of the scene, wherein the first sensor and the second sensor are disposed on a common substrate; and
circuitry configured to generate a first image by performing fusion on the depthmap information and the image information of the scene, the first image having a higher quality depth measurement for each single pixel or a higher resolution than the depthmap information and the image information.