US Patent Issued to ams-Osram Asia Pacific on May 27 for "Depth sensing using optical time-of-flight techniques through a transmissive cover" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,779, issued on May 27, was assigned to ams-Osram Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Depth sensing using optical time-of-flight techniques through a transmissive cover" was invented by Pradeep Hegde (Frisco, Texas), Timothy Cogan (McKinney, Texas), Doug Nelson (Plano, Texas) and Drew Paterson (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining dynamically the intensity of the reflection from a transmissive cover and neutralizing it so as to improve the accuracy of depth measurements. Depth measurements of light modulation at multiple frequencies-which also can be used for depth disambiguation-are obtained and use...