US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 16 for "Depth imaging system with downsampled reflected illumination" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,640, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Depth imaging system with downsampled reflected illumination" was invented by John Peter Godbaz (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a depth imaging system is presented. The method comprises illuminating an environment using an optical source configured to output modulated structured light comprising a pattern of dots. Reflected illumination is received at an optical sensor comprising a 2D pixel grid. Received reflected illumination from the 2D pixel grid is downsampled to a plurality of 1D dot trail vec...