Re:Spy camera detection using smartphone time-of-flight sensors
by salicideblock on Friday November 19, 2021 @07:35AM
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All ToF systems are active.
ToF stands for "time of flight". It works exactly by measuring how long the signal takes to go from camera to object and back [1]
Stereoscopic cameras are another type of 3R camera, they are not ToF and they are not active.
Each has pros and cons.
If you have a projector, you can do more. I believe Apple uses a flash, which has a low resolution, but is perhaps less cpu-intensive and less error prone, although it has a lower resolution. That would be a real Lidar, which is an active measurement. Of course combining that with sensible stereoscopy nets better results.