US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Oct. 28 for "Deployment of time of flight sensor on camera" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,381, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Deployment of time of flight sensor on camera" was invented by Ian Matthew Snyder (San Francisco), Nicholas Dye Abalos (San Francisco) and Ramkrishna Swamy (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for camera height detection include a time of flight (TOF) sensor included on a camera within a camera array that emits a signal in an array of points. After receiving a reflected signal at the TOF sensor, where the reflected signal is a bounce back of the emitted signal from at least a subset of the array of points, a distance ...