Time-Of-Flight 3D: Coming To A Device Near You

摘要

Microsoft's Kinect introduced XBox 360 gamers to 3D sensors and body gesture recognition. It utilized technology from PrimeSense that projects an infrared (IR) pattern and uses a conventional IR sensor array to detect that pattern. A custom system-on-chip (SoC) does the heavy-duty number crunching so the host gets a depth map instead of information overload. The XBox One comes with the second generation of the Kinect. However, it switches to a new technology for 3D imaging, time-of-flight (ToF).