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Synchronizing active illumination cameras

  • US 10,462,452 B2
  • Filed: 03/16/2016
  • Issued: 10/29/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for controlling operation of a plurality of active illumination time of flight (TOF) range cameras, the system comprising:

  • a hub configured to communicate with mobile communication devices and comprising a database of active illumination TOF range cameras subscribed to the system; and

    a set of computer executable instructions comprised in each subscriber TOF range camera that configures the camera to communicate with the hub when located in a same imaging neighbourhood with other subscriber TOF range cameras to establish a frequency division multiplexing (FDM) imaging mode of operation in which each of the subscriber TOF range cameras is assigned a different FDM imaging frequency that the TOF range camera uses to determine a modulation period for light that the camera transmits to illuminate a scene that the camera images and a modulation period for modulating sensitivity of the TOF range camera to register light reflected by features in the scene from the transmitted modulated light.

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