US Patent Issued to Lumileds Singapore on Oct. 21 for "Imaging arrangement and corresponding methods and systems for depth map generation" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,761, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Lumileds Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Imaging arrangement and corresponding methods and systems for depth map generation" was invented by Marcus Jozef Henricus Kessels (Echt, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system includes multiple LED modules, a single image sensor, a controller, a processing unit and a depth map generator. Each LED module has a distinct angular emission profile and emits light having a distinct wavelength range. The image sensor detects light originating from at least two of the LED modules after reflection by an object in a field of view of the ima...