US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on July 29 for "Systems, methods, and media for estimating depths in a scene using single-photon detectors and binary structured light patterns" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,967, issued on July 29, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Systems, methods, and media for estimating depths in a scene using single-photon detectors and binary structured light patterns" was invented by Varun Sundar (Madison, Wis.) and Mohit Gupta (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with some embodiments, systems, methods, and media for estimating depths in a scene using single-photon detectors and binary structured light patterns are provided. In some embodiments, a system comprises: a light source; an image sensor comprising an array including single-photon detectors; a p...