Waymo llc (20250080872). 3D ToF Vision System
3D ToF Vision System
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Inventor(s)
Nirav Shailesh kumar Dharia of Milpitas CA (US)
Lucian Ion of Mountain View CA (US)
Simon Verghese of Mountain View CA (US)
3D ToF Vision System
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250080872 titled '3D ToF Vision System
Original Abstract Submitted
example embodiments relate to devices, systems, and methods involving three-dimensional time-of-flight/visible image sensors. an example embodiment includes a device that includes a plurality of time of flight sensor (tof) pixels and a plurality of visible image sensor (vis) pixels. the device also includes a tof communication channel configured to provide tof image data indicative of one or more tof pixels and a vis communication channel configured to provide vis image data indicative of one or more vis pixels. the plurality of tof pixels and the plurality of vis pixels are arranged along a plane. the plurality of tof pixels is disposed in an arrangement among the plurality of vis pixels.