Patent Document ID: 20170087023
Application ID: 15126775
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A system for providing information to a user about the user's environment, the system comprising: a detection apparatus configured to obtain image information about the environment, wherein the image information corresponds to information at multiple distances relative to a position of the user within the environment; and an electronic processor configured to: obtain focal plane distance information defining a set of one or more distance values relative to the position of the user within the environment; construct one or more confocal images of the environment from the image information and the set of one or more distance values, wherein each of the one or more confocal images corresponds to a different distance value and comprises a set of pixels; and transform the one or more confocal images to form one or more representative images, wherein each representative image corresponds to one of the confocal images and comprises fewer pixels and a lower dynamic range than the set of pixels and a dynamic range of the corresponding confocal image.