US 12,236,642 B2
Camera intrinsic calibration
Zhiheng Jia, Weston, FL (US); Etienne Gregoire Grossmann, Menlo Park, CA (US); Hao Zheng, Weston, FL (US); Daniel Roger Dominguez, Sunrise, FL (US); and Robert D. Tekolste, Boulder, CO (US)
Assigned to Magic Leap, Inc., Plantation, FL (US)
Filed by Magic Leap, Inc., Plantation, FL (US)
Filed on Dec. 6, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/530,565.
Application 18/530,565 is a continuation of application No. 17/348,627, filed on Jun. 15, 2021, granted, now 11,887,208.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/039,910, filed on Jun. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0112370 A1, Apr. 4, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06T 7/80 (2017.01); G02B 27/42 (2006.01); G06V 10/14 (2022.01); H04N 17/00 (2006.01); H04N 23/90 (2023.01)
CPC G06T 7/80 (2017.01) [G02B 27/4205 (2013.01); G06V 10/14 (2022.01); H04N 17/002 (2013.01); H04N 23/90 (2023.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for determining intrinsic parameters of a camera, the system comprising:
a camera;
a collimator assembly, wherein the camera is placed in front of the collimator assembly, wherein the collimator assembly includes a two-sided diffractive optical element, wherein a grating pattern is formed on each surface of the two-sided diffractive optical element; and
a processor coupled to the camera to receive image data from the camera, wherein the processor stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
receive an image from the camera, wherein the grating pattern formed on each surface of the two-sided diffractive optical element is selected to reduce a brightness of a central intensity peak on the image to a predetermined amount; and
determine intrinsic parameters of the camera based on an intensity peak on the image and virtual light source formed by the two-sided diffractive optical element that corresponds to the intensity peak.