Softkinetic depthsense time-of-flight 3D camera Teardown

Taiwan LIPS Presents ToF Stereo 3D Camera

from:  http://image-sensors-world.blogspot.com/2014/08/taiwan-lips-presents-tof-stereo-3d.html

Taiwan LIPS Presents ToF Stereo 3D Camera

As written in comments to the previous post, Taiwan-based LIPS posted Youtube videos demoing a 3D camera based on combination of ToF and stereo. No explanation of the technology is given, other than saying it's compatible with Primesense openNI 1.5 and 2.x software.

ESPROS Demos ToF Evaluation Kit

ESPROS Photonics publishes Youtube video showing its epc610 ToF sensor evaluation kit:

http://www.espros.ch/3d-imagers

Fully integrated Time-of-Flight imager/camera built as a system-on-chip.

      

epc610 on PCB                                         The world's smallest TOF camera based on epc610

Operation principle

The epc610 chip is based on the 3D TOF principle of light. Modulated light is emitted by a transmitter. This light is reflected by the object to be detected. The returning light is sampled by an on-chip photosensitive TOF CCD array. The receiver compares the phase difference between the emitted and the received light and computes the time difference of the "Time-of-Flight" individually per pixel. This value multiplied by the speed of light (ca. 300'000km/sec) and divided by 2 corresponds directly linearly to the distance.
The epc610 chip is designed to enable simple and cost effective 3D TOF cameras. Together with a microprocessor and few external components a fully functional TOF camera can be built.
The measurement functionality supports distance and ambient light measurement with variable integration time and on-chip temperature measurement for drift compensation.

Image Sensors World: Google Tango Project Tablets Feature pmd's 3D technology

http://image-sensors-world.blogspot.com/2014/06/google-tango-project-tablets-feature.html

Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects group (ATAP) is demonstrating their latest Project Tango Tablet Development Kits at Google I/O 2014 today. Now, for the first time, the tablets with integrated pmd-based depth sensors are shown publicly. Besides a motion tracking and a RGB camera the tablets utilize a pmd-based 3D ToF sensor to allow the tablet to sense its environment in space and motion. The ToF sensor used in the tablet has been jointly developed by Infineon and pmdtechnologies.

"We are proud that Google's ATAP group shows the world for the first time how our 3D technology is contributing to the addition of environmental awareness to mobile devices in a new and unique way. We also look forward to seeing what kind of amazing applications will be developed based on this tablet as the possibilities are endless in applications such as augmented reality, architecture, retail, gaming, and many more.", says Bernd Buxbaum, CEO of pmdtechnologies.


http://www.pressebox.com/pressrelease/pmdtechnologies-gmbh/Googles-ATAP-Group-shows-first-Tango-Tablets-at-Google-IO-live-with-pmds-3D-technology/boxid/686619

http://www.pmdtec.com/news_media/press_release/google_tango_tablet.php

Google's ATAP Group shows first Tango Tablets

http://www.pmdtec.com/news_media/press_release/google_tango_tablet.php