Patents by Inventor Anthony Kolar

Anthony Kolar has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Integrated three-dimensional vision sensor
    Patent number: 9532030
    Abstract: A three-dimensional scene sensor comprises: a deformable optical system modifying focal distance by control signal, optics imaging the scene by analog image sensor for depths corresponding to distances; the image sensor comprising a matrix of pixels grouped into sub-matrices of macro-pixels being a sub-assembly of pixels, each macro-pixel operating independently for acquisition and reading of data; a matrix of elementary processors, each macro-pixel directly connected to a dedicated processor wherein pixel data for the macro-pixel are transmitted and processed by the processor, each processor carries out, for each pixel, local processing operations calculating depth information for macro-pixel, the processors operating in parallel and independently such that the depth information is processed and calculated in parallel over all macro-pixels of the image sensor, the processors connected to at least one processing unit allowing calculations using high-level input data, calculated starting from the pixel data di
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Anthony Kolar, Marc Duranton
  • INTEGRATED THREE-DIMENSIONAL VISION SENSOR
    Publication number: 20140354778
    Abstract: A three-dimensional scene sensor comprises: a deformable optical system modifying focal distance by control signal, optics imaging the scene by analog image sensor for depths corresponding to distances; the image sensor comprising a matrix of pixels grouped into sub-matrices of macro-pixels being a sub-assembly of pixels, each macro-pixel operating independently for acquisition and reading of data; a matrix of elementary processors, each macro-pixel directly connected to a dedicated processor wherein pixel data for the macro-pixel are transmitted and processed by the processor, each processor carries out, for each pixel, local processing operations calculating depth information for macro-pixel, the processors operating in parallel and independently such that the depth information is processed and calculated in parallel over all macro-pixels of the image sensor, the processors connected to at least one processing unit allowing calculations using high-level input data, calculated starting from the pixel data di
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Anthony Kolar, Marc Duranton