Re:Look inside iPad Pro 11s Lidar Scanner
by dan-robertson on Saturday November 07, 2020 @06:16AM
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The sentence is a bit awkward but I think it is phrased that way to suggest that Apple’s sensor is different from other things called lidar which tend to involve scanning with a rotating mirror.
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Re:Look inside iPad Pro 11s Lidar Scanner
by Frost1x on Saturday November 07, 2020 @07:45AM
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Solid state / flash lidar systems are also fairly established in autonomous systems. Usually the reason most these lidar systems use rotating mirrors is to reduce cost, power requirements, etc.
I almost forgot that Apple bought PrimeSense in 2013 (the company that used this IR pattern technique in the old Microsoft Kinects). It's really structured light depth based sampling which is a bit different than lidar.
Re:Look inside iPad Pro 11s Lidar Scanner
by kfir on Saturday November 07, 2020 @08:04AM
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Appled used PrimeSense technology to enable FaceID, take a closer look at an iPhone sensor array in the notch and compare it to Kinect - https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/9/17/16315510/i...