Patent ID: 9189081
Filing Date: 2015-11-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An optical sensing apparatus, comprising: M light emitting devices, wherein M is a positive integer; N sensing devices, wherein N is an integer greater than or equal to 3; a control circuit, electrically connected to the M light emitting devices and the N sensing devices, the control circuit arranged for controlling activation and deactivation of the M light emitting devices, and controlling each sensing device to detect a reflected signal reflected from an object when a corresponding light emitting device is activated in order to generate a sensing result corresponding to the sensing device, wherein the N sensing devices generate N sensing results in response to the M light emitting devices; and a processing circuit, coupled to the control circuit and the N sensing devices, the processing circuit arranged for calculating position information of the object according to at least the N sensing results and N sensing positions of the N sensing devices, wherein the N sensing positions define at least one geometric plane.