Patent Document ID: 20170131090
Application ID: 14934599
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A depth camera comprising: a projector to project a collection of planes, each at a different angle of projection, onto a scene via a plurality of coded pattern images, each of the coded pattern images having encoded therein via a plurality of stripes, the angle of projection for the plane of projection within which the respective coded pattern image is projected; a detector to capture the plurality of coded pattern images from the scene; a processing component to output a bit value for each pixel in the captured plurality of coded pattern images based on the pixel captured and based further on a patch of neighboring pixels surrounding the pixel; a decoder to decode each of the plurality of coded pattern images based on the bit values output by the processing component to determine the angle of projection for the corresponding plane of projection; and a triangulator to determine a position of an object in the scene based on an intersection of the determined angle of projection for the corresponding plane of projection with a geometric ray originating from the detector that detected the plurality of the coded pattern images.