ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,444, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to AIRY3D INC. (Montreal, Canada).
"Power management techniques in depth imaging" was invented by Paul Gallagher (San Jose, Calif.), Imrul Kayes (Montreal), Siamak Abdollahi (Montreal) and Simon Summy (Montreal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing power usage of a depth imaging system including an image sensor having an array of pixels configured to detect light incident from a scene and an optical encoder configured to modulate the incident light detected by the pixels in accordance with an angle of incidence of the incident light. The method includes operating the system in a lo...