Patents by Inventor Christian BRANDLI

Christian BRANDLI 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).

  • Publication number: 20170241774
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for detecting and reconstructing a surface illuminated with spatially structured light such that the light illuminates an area of the surface from which the light is reflected back. The light includes a temporarily varying intensity in the form of successive light modulation patterns. The back-reflected light is detected by an optical sensor including a plurality of pixels. A pixel coordinate is associated to each pixel and each pixel generated a photocurrent proportional to the intensity of the light impinging on a respective pixel, computes a signal related to a photocurrent, and each pixel outputs an address-event merely when a respective signal due to the light impinging on the respective pixel increases by an amount larger than a first threshold or decreases by an amount larger than a second threshold since a last address-event from the respective pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Christian Brandli, Tobias Delbruck, Markus Andreas Hopflinger, Marco Hutter, Thomas Albert Mantel
  • Publication number: 20170206422
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for tracking a position of at least one keypoint in an image of an object moving relative to an optical sensor, wherein light reflected from the object (12) is detected so as to generate an image of the object, and wherein a position of at least one keypoint (Kj) in said image is detected and updated using temporal contrast events (Ev) of the optical sensor. The invention also relates to a corresponding computer program and device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Applicant: UNIVERSITAT ZURICH
    Inventors: Tobias DELBRUCK, Christian BRANDLI, Marc OSSWALD
  • Publication number: 20170003121
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for detecting and reconstructing a surface illuminated with spatially structured light such that the light illuminates an area of the surface from which the light is reflected back. The light includes a temporarily varying intensity in the form of successive light modulation patterns. The back-reflected light is detected by an optical sensor including a plurality of pixels. A pixel coordinate is associated to each pixel and each pixel generated a photocurrent proportional to the intensity of the light impinging on a respective pixel, computes a signal related to a photocurrent, and each pixel outputs an address-event merely when a respective signal due to the light impinging on the respective pixel increases by an amount larger than a first threshold or decreases by an amount larger than a second threshold since a last address-event from the respective pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Christian Brandli, Tobias Delbruck, Markus Andreas Hopflinger, Marco Hutter, Thomas Albert Mantel
  • Publication number: 20160274643
    Abstract: An event-based sensor is provided and may include a sensor configured to generate an event signal that includes identification information that relates to an active pixel that detects an event from among a plurality of sensing pixels, a determiner configured to determine whether the event signal is to be filtered based on a predetermined condition, and an outputter configured to output the event signal based on a result of the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicants: Universitaet Zuerich, SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongjie LIU, Chenghan LI, Christian BRANDLI, Shih-Chii LIU, Tobi DELBRUCK