Dong-Ki Min, Ilia Ovsiannikov, Yohwan Noh, Wanghyun Kim, Sunhwa Jung, Joonho Lee, Deokha Shin, Hyekyung Jung, Lawrence Kim, Grzegorz Waligorski, Lilong Shi, Yoondong Park, Chilhee Chung
3D time-of-flight depth cameras utilize modulated light sources to detect the distance to objects as phase information. A serious limitation may exist in cases when multiple depth time-of-flight cameras are imaging the same scene simultaneously. The interference caused by the multiple modulated light sources can severely distort captured depth images. To prevent this problem and enable concurrent 3D multi-camera imaging, we propose modulating the camera light source and demodulating the received signal using sequences of pulses, where the phase of each sequence is varied in a pseudo-random fashion. The proposed algorithm is mathematically derived and proved by experiment.
In this paper, we proposed a new technique for demosaicing a unique RGBZ color-depth imaging sensor, which
captures color and depth images simultaneously, with a specially designed color-filter-array (CFA) where two out of
six RGB color rows are replaced by “Z” pixels that capture depth information but no color information. Therefore,
in an RGBZ image, the red, green and blue colors are more sparsely sampled than in a standard Bayer image. Due to
the missing rows in the data image, commonly used demosaicing algorithms for the standard Bayer CFA cannot be
applied directly. To this end, our method first fills-in the missing rows to reconstruct a full Bayer CFA, followed by
a color-selective adaptive demosaicing algorithm that interpolates missing color components. In the first step, unlike
common bilinear interpolation approaches that tend to blur edges, our edge-based directional interpolation approach,
derived from de-interlacing techniques, emphasizes reconstructing more straight and sharp edges with fewer
artifacts and thereby preserves the vertical resolution in the reconstructed the image. In the second step, to avoid
using the newly estimated pixels for demosaicing, the bilateral-filter-based approach interpolates the missing color
samples based on weighted average of adaptively selected known pixels from the local neighborhoods. Tests show
that the proposed method reconstructs full color images while preserving edges details, avoiding artifacts, and
removing noise with high efficiency.
Optical interconnects may provide solutions to the capacity-bandwidth trade-off of recent memory interface systems. For
cost-effective optical memory interfaces, Samsung Electronics has been developing silicon photonics platforms on
memory-compatible bulk-Si 300-mm wafers. The waveguide of 0.6 dB/mm propagation loss, vertical grating coupler of
2.7 dB coupling loss, modulator of 10 Gbps speed, and Ge/Si photodiode of 12.5 Gbps bandwidth have been achieved on
the bulk-Si platform. 2x6.4 Gbps electrical driver circuits have been also fabricated using a CMOS process.
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