TOF ILLUMINATION SYSTEM AND TOF CAMERA AND METHOD FOR OPERATING, WITH CONTROL MEANS FOR DRIVING ELECTRONIC DEVICES LOCATED IN THE SCENE

摘要

A system, and a method is described for use with electronic devices such as a TV display, a laptop, a PC, a media centre platform, a Set Top Box or a DVD player, a light bulb, said system and method combining advantageously several separate control means into one single device. The combined control means shares at least one common property such as, as for example, the use of an IR signal to convey information signal. In particular, the invention is related to the combination of a TOF illumination system of a TOF camera and the method for operating it, with the control means for driving electronic devices located in the scene such as, as for example, an IR emitter for driving 3D IR synchronized viewing glasses.

主权项

1. Circuitry comprising:
a single illumination unit (8, 49) for illuminating a scene (55), a signal generator (4, 43) for generating multimodulated signal and for supplying this multimodulated signal to the illumination unit, the signal generator being adapted to provide the multimodulated signal to the illumination unitcharacterized in that the illumination unit emits at least one modulated signal corresponding to a ToF signal suitable for measuring a distance related parameter with respect to the ToF principle at least another modulated signal with a modulation different from the one of the modulated signal corresponding to a ToF signal for providing information to a first object in the illuminated scene to control its operation.