Apple Wins Two Radical New Camera Patents Forbes
Earlier this month Apple was granted two patents detailing radical camera devices unlike anything seen before in an Apple product. One embodiment of Apple’s standalone depth camera, US Patent #10,298,913 The first, entitled simply ‘standalone depth camera’ leverages the company’s TrueDepth camera technologies to produce a table-mounted device capable of scanning an entire room and its contents in three dimensions. The device pairs a light-emitting transmitter with a scanner to produce time-of-flight information suitable for generating a depth map similar to those created on a smaller scale …