US Patent Issued to Honor Device on July 8 for "Data obtaining method and apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,403, issued on July 8, was assigned to Honor Device Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data obtaining method and apparatus" was invented by Jiangfeng Yuan (Shenzhen, China), Chuan Liao (Shenzhen, China) and Junwei Zhou (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first frame of time of flight (TOF) data including projection off data and infrared data is obtained, and after determining that a data block satisfying that a number of data points with values greater than a first threshold is greater than a second threshold is present in the infrared data, TOF data for generating a first frame of a TOF image is obtained based on a difference...