Patent ID: 11889046
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  F  G | IPC F  G  H

Claim 16:
17. At least one computer-readable storage device comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a machine to at least:
project a pattern of light on an object using a projector, the projector including:
vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) to emit the light in a direction away from a surface of a substrate, the substrate supporting the VCSELs along the surface;
micro-lenses fixed to the surface of the substrate, centerlines of different ones of the micro-lenses offset relative to centerlines of respective ones of the VCSELs by different amounts to bend the light emitted from the respective ones of the VCSELs by different angles, the different amounts based on distances of the different ones of the micro-lenses from a center of an area on the surface across which the micro-lenses are distributed; and
a projection lens coupled to the micro-lenses;

capture an image of the object illuminated by the pattern of light; and
generate depth information based on the image.