3 Dimensional Light sEnsing for Advanced Portable Devices

Project Information

3D-LEAP

Grant agreement ID: 682804

DOI

10.3030/682804

Project closed

EC signature date 26 June 2015

Start date 1 July 2015

End date 31 March 2018

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Total cost

€ 3 468 925,00

EU contribution

€ 2 428 192,38

Coordinated by

PHOTONIC SENSORS AND ALGORITHMS SL
Spain

Periodic Reporting for period 3 - 3D-LEAP (3 Dimensional Light sEnsing for Advanced Portable Devices)

Reporting period: 2017-07-01 to 2018-03-31

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

This Project has produced the world´s MOST COMPETITIVE DEPTH CAMERA for SMART PHONES.

We enable LOWER COSTS and HIGHER PERFORMANCE applications in:
FACE RECOGNITION,
GESTURE RECOGNITION,
IMPROVED BOKEH-EFFECT,
VR-AR CONTENT GENERATION (VIRTUAL REALITY-AUGMENTED REALITY),
and other applications (https://youtu.be/HYaQ5OBD2_M )

We BEAT COMPETITION by offering:
Higher RESOLUTION (1.4 MPIXEL) DEPTH MAPS AND IMAGES.
REAL TIME depth maps (30 fps) and images.
Better depth measurement PRECISION for shorter and longer distances.
Lower BULKYNESS, lower COMPONENT COUNT and lower COSTS.
Lower POWER CONSUMPTION.
Higher RELIABILITY depth maps and operation.


Technology developed in this Project will be used by major Smartphone manufacturers all over the world.

This disruptive device is aiming towards significant market-shares in imaging modules, accelerating our growth and Europe´s Competitive position in Smart Mini Cameras for imaging. We introduced a paradigm changer in one of the highest growth areas addressable in consumer technologies.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

We developed a depth-camera offering simultaneously depth-maps and real-time images (at 30 fps, frames per second).

We designed the optics, the electronics and the algorithms to compute the depth maps from the acquired images.

Our camera (see attached images) aims to global leadership in depth cameras for mobile telephony, targetting to ship several hundred million cameras embedded in mobile devices by 2022 and beyond.

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

Our single lens depth and image camera beats state of the the art competing technologies offering better lateral resolution, depth-estimation capabilities, real-time refresh rates (fps) and lower costs than TOF (Time of Flight), SL (Structured Light) and Stereo-cameras.

A disruptive device as our camera has never been produced by anybody else in the world, both from the advanced hardware and the algorithmic points of view.

Competitive advantages beyond state of the art will allow us to aim for a leading position in a high-growth niche of a market approaching 2 billion units shipments per year.

ANDROID development environment for our devices.

Face recognition. Gesture recognition.

Camera Module embedded in mobile devices.

VR content generation. Auto Focus (AF). All-in-focus. Bokeh effect.

Sharp details and blurry areas.