US Patent Issued to Varjo Technologies on Nov. 4 for "Depth sensing for extended reality (XR) apparatus" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,414, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Varjo Technologies Oy (Helsinki).

"Depth sensing for extended reality (XR) apparatus" was invented by Mikko Ollila (Tampere, Finland) and Mikko Strandborg (Hangonkyla, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for depth sensing that includes a scanning light source configured to sequentially illuminate an environment utilizing a scan pattern. The apparatus also includes a birefringent layer adapted to receive and split reflected scan pattern from the environment into an ordinary ray (O-ray) image and an extraordinary ray (E-ray) image. The apparatus further inc...