Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for generating a three-dimensional image from a captured two-dimensional image. The method includes capturing, via a wide-angle camera sensor of an image capturing device, a two-dimensional image of a scene. The method further includes determining depth information of the scene. The method further includes generating, from the depth information, a depth map that depicts a depth of the scene in a third dimension. The method further includes generating a wide-angle three-dimensional image by merging the depth map and the two-dimensional image.

Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for generating a three-dimensional image from a captured two-dimensional image. The method includes capturing, via a wide-angle camera sensor of an image capturing device, a two-dimensional image of a scene. The method further includes determining depth information of the scene. The method further includes generating, from the depth information, a depth map that depicts a depth of the scene in a third dimension. The method further includes generating a wide-angle three-dimensional image by merging the depth map and the two-dimensional image.

Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a location of a stylus on a planar surface are provided. In one example, a system includes a first optical source, a second optical source, a stylus, and electrical circuitry. The optical sources are at source locations and configured to rotationally sweep optical beams along the planar surface. The optical beams include encoded data sequences that vary with time. The stylus contains at least one optical receiver and is configured to receive the optical beams. The stylus is also configured to detect the data sequences from the optical beams. The electrical circuitry is configured to determine angular relationships between the stylus and the source locations based on the detected encoded data sequences. The electrical circuitry is also configured to calculate coordinates of the stylus on the planar surface based on the angular relationships and the source locations.

Abstract: Embodiments of a system and method for generating a pixel value use at least a first pixel in a first row of a charge coupled device (CCD) and a first pixel in a second row, adjacent to the first row, of the CCD.

Abstract: A system for determining a location of an object on a planar surface includes a time-of-flight sensor having sensing elements that provide a field of view for the time-of-flight sensor. The system also includes a mirror attached to the shaft of a motor for reflecting the field of view of the time-of-flight sensor across the planar surface. The system also includes electrical circuitry configured to receive range images from the time-of-flight sensor as the field of view is swept across the planar surface and process the range images to identify the object in at least one of the range images. The electrical circuitry is also configured to calculate a location of the object on the planar surface relative to the motor based on an angle of the shaft associated with the at least one range image and based on a distance of the object from time-of-flight sensor.

Abstract: A system and method for focusing an image capture device are disclosed. One embodiment is a method comprising moving an autofocus window in response to detected movement of the image capture device.

Abstract: An apparatus for determining a position of an object on a planar surface is provided. The apparatus includes a conical mirror having an axis that is perpendicular to the planar surface and a time-of-flight sensor array having a spatial relationship to the conical mirror such that a field of view of the time of flight sensor array is reflected radially from the conical mirror in a plurality of directions across the planar surface. The apparatus also includes electrical circuitry configured to receive a ranged image captured by the time-of-flight sensor array through the conical mirror, process the ranged image to determine the position of the object on the planar surface by determining an angle and a radius of the object relative to the axis of the conical mirror, and transmit the position of the object to a display system.

Abstract: An example system in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure includes a controller and a camera communicatively coupled to the controller to capture an image of a work surface. A projector is also provided and is coupled to the controller to project an illumination pattern onto the work surface during image capture by the camera.

Abstract: An apparatus for determining a position of an object on a planar surface is provided. The apparatus includes a conical mirror having an axis that is perpendicular to the planar surface and a time-of-flight sensor array having a spatial relationship to the conical mirror such that a field of view of the time of flight sensor array is reflected radially from the conical mirror in a plurality of directions across the planar surface. The apparatus also includes electrical circuitry configured to receive a ranged image captured by the time-of-flight sensor array through the conical mirror, process the ranged image to determine the position of the object on the planar surface by determining an angle and a radius of the object relative to the axis of the conical mirror, and transmit the position of the object to a display system.

Abstract: A system for determining a location of an object on a planar surface includes a time-of-flight sensor having sensing elements that provide a field of view for the time-of-flight sensor. The system also includes a mirror attached to the shaft of a motor for reflecting the field of view of the time-of-flight sensor across the planar surface. The system also includes electrical circuitry configured to receive range images from the time-of-flight sensor as the field of view is swept across the planar surface and process the range images to identify the object in at least one of the range images. The electrical circuitry is also configured to calculate a location of the object on the planar surface relative to the motor based on an angle of the shaft associated with the at least one range image and based on a distance of the object from time-of-flight sensor.

Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a location of a stylus on a planar surface are provided. In one example, a system includes a first optical source, a second optical source, a stylus, and electrical circuitry. The optical sources are at source locations and configured to rotationally sweep optical beams along the planar surface. The optical beams include encoded data sequences that vary with time. The stylus contains at least one optical receiver and is configured to receive the optical beams. The stylus is also configured to detect the data sequences from the optical beams. The electrical circuitry is configured to determine angular relationships between the stylus and the source locations based on the detected encoded data sequences. The electrical circuitry is also configured to calculate coordinates of the stylus on the planar surface based on the angular relationships and the source locations.

Abstract: Methods and systems for determining a location of an object on a planar surface are provided. In one example, a method includes determining a receive angle of a first light beam based on a difference between a time the first light beam is received at the object and a time that the first light beam is received at a calibration location. The method also includes determining a receive angle of a second light beam based on a difference between a time the second light beam is received at the object and a time that the second light beam is received at the calibration location. Finally, the method includes determining the position of the object based on the receive angle of the first light beam, the receive angle of the second light beam, the first source location, and the second source location.

Abstract: A system composed of a housing and an arm coupled to the housing. The arm supports a first lamp, a second lamp, and an optical sensor.

Abstract: Imaging systems and methods for actuating image sensors based on alignment are disclosed. An example method includes determining by a controller an alignment of a plurality of sensors, the sensors adapted to capture an image of an object. The method also includes actuating the sensors with the controller based on the alignment.

Abstract: A system composed of a housing and an arm coupled to the housing. The arm supports a first lamp, a second lamp, and an optical sensor.

Abstract: An illumination source senses a level of ambient light and determines an illumination waveform to be used to illuminate at least a portion of a document. The rise and the fall time of the illumination waveform are independently controlled.

Abstract: An imaging system comprises a masking element configured to mask a predetermined quantity of lens elements of a lens array during a scan of a media object to change a depth of field of the lens array.

Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, an image capture device comprises a first scanning module operable to scan a first side of an object and a second scanning module operable to scan a second side of the object, the first and second scanning modules translatable along their respective displacement paths.

Abstract: A system and method are provided that compensates for noise in a captured image. One embodiment comprises scanning an image a predefined number of times with a plurality of pixels, receiving light information from each of the plurality of pixels each time the image is scanned, converting the received light information into a plurality of data values, each of the data values corresponding uniquely to light information from one of the plurality of pixels, generating a plurality of pre-divided data values by dividing each of the data values by a number corresponding to the number of times that the image is scanned, and adding corresponding ones of the pre-divided data values together such that an average data value is determined uniquely for each of the plurality of pixels so that noise is compensated by the averaging of the data values.

Abstract: Transparency media adapter and methods of using the same. Implementations of a system may comprise an imaging device having a light source and at least one sensor. A media adapter operatively associated with the imaging device includes a first reflective surface and a second reflective surface arranged to shift light emitted by the light source to a predetermined focus point of the at least one sensor during an imaging operation.