IMAGING SYSTEM

Patent №

US 8,890,952

Granted

2014-11-18

Filed 2009

Owner

MICROSOFT INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS B.V.

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12511074

An imaging system comprising: a light source for illuminating a scene with a known intensity light; a camera having an optic axis and center that images the scene responsive to light reflected by the scene from the illuminating, known intensity light; a range finder controllable to determine distances to surface elements of the scene imaged by the camera; a controller configured to determine reflectivity of a surface element of the scene imaged by the camera responsive to a distance of the surface element from the camera, the known intensity of illuminating light and light from the surface element imaged by the camera.

VisionG01S 17/18G01S 17/894

AI classification

Vision1.00
Knowledge representation0.01
Natural language0.01
AI hardware0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS B.V.

assignment · 230180899

Assignors

KATZ, SAGI

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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