Aptina Applies for Patent on Structured Light Sensor with Background Subtraction

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Aptina's patent applications US20120274744 and EP2519001 "Structured light imaging system" by Chung Chyn Wan, Xiangli Li and Gennadiy Agranov proposes background light extraction in stuctured light system with pulsed light source:


The signal plus background and background are stored on the different caps in the pixel...


...and then read out for further processing:

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