US 12,436,283 B2
Three-dimensional image capturing according to time-of-flight measurement and light spot pattern measurement
Jose Manuel Gil-Cacho, Stuttgart (DE); and Sebastien Louveaux, Stuttgart (DE)
Assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa (JP)
Appl. No. 18/273,546
Filed by Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa (JP)
PCT Filed Jan. 26, 2022, PCT No. PCT/EP2022/051662
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 21, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/161964, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 4, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 21153725 (EP), filed on Jan. 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0103168 A1, Mar. 28, 2024
Int. Cl. G01S 17/36 (2006.01); G01S 17/46 (2006.01); G01S 17/894 (2020.01)
CPC G01S 17/36 (2013.01) [G01S 17/46 (2013.01); G01S 17/894 (2020.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising circuitry configured to disambiguate a first phase delay obtained according to an indirect Time-of-Flight principle to obtain a second phase delay, wherein the circuitry is configured to disambiguate the first phase delay based on a captured spot position.