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Primesense never made a ToF sensor. When they were bought by Apple they had a Structured Light sensor on the market and apparently had a MEMS-mirror LiDAR senso
by rsp1984 6y ago
Primesense never made a ToF sensor. When they were bought by Apple they had a Structured Light sensor on the market and apparently had a MEMS-mirror LiDAR sensor in the labs.
Despite the name, ToF sensor typically means using modulated flood illumination and phase shift to compute the depth. It's conceptually very simple but suffers multi-path errors and poor efficiency. Real Time-of-Flight sensors (that measure depth by timing light) are typically called LiDAR. These typically collect many pointwise independent measurements.
The LiDAR inside the iPad Pro and the iPhone Pro is solid state (no moving parts, not even a MEMS mirror). It was developed by Sony and they are now selling it to Apple.
- ynniv 6y agoYou are right regarding Sony. I thought the Primesense Carmine was ToF, but it was only a miniaturization of their SL. There weren't many high quality comments when I posted, so I filled in what I could remember from years ago. It's nice to see some current industry knowledge!