ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,208, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES Ltd. (Tainan, Taiwan).
"3D sensing system and method" was invented by Min-Chian Wu (Tainan, Taiwan), Pen-Hsin Chen (Tainan, Taiwan), Ching-Wen Wang (Tainan, Taiwan), Cheng-Che Tsai (Tainan, Taiwan) and Ting-Sheng Hsu (Tainan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 3D sensing system including a liquid crystal lens, a projector, an image sensor and a circuit. The projector provides a light beam to the liquid crystal lens which applies a pattern to the light beam to generate a structured light. The image sensor captures an image corresponding to the structured light. The circui...