ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,613, issued on June 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Detection of close-range specular targets" was invented by Moshe Laifenfeld (Haifa, Israel), Jason R. Holloway (Cupertino, Calif.), Alexandra H. Chau (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Gregory Guyomarc'h (San Francisco), Connor Henley (Cambridge, Mass.) and Oriel Y. Bergig (Shoham, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Imaging apparatus includes a camera, which includes an autofocus mechanism. A range sensor includes a transmitter, which includes multiple emitters configured to transmit optical pulses at different angles toward the scene, and a receiver, to receive and sense ...