> What, exactly, are you trying to protect from? People taking the trick that makes this product unique / better and applying it themselves. So a mixture of ha

> What, exactly, are you trying to protect from? People taking the trick that makes this product unique / better and applying it themselves. So a mixture of hardware and software design choices which together make this a useful execution of the general idea of building a 3D camera. It should be quite easy for anyone to identify the specific features of this camera prototype that differ from existing 3D cameras. And with a bit of research people can figure out what is improved by that specific way of building it. Yes, one could dismiss this as only saving them a NRE, but what if the amount saved is very high? > What does your business (not product) offer that they can’t already get from starting with an off the shelf OpenCV product? Since there's no business yet, that is difficult to answer. What the product offers is that it works in situations where existing products had problems. For example, IR laser projection like the RealSense won't work well with reflective objects, glass, thin wires, or water. But all of those are common environments for end-user drones.