Episode #5 - The invisible guard. Direct Time of Flight sensor technology with David Smith

You certainly know this from your everyday life: to unlock your
cell phone, you now use your face, you look briefly at your
gadget and the system recognizes you. The same authentication
procedure is used on some laptops - you look briefly at the
camera and you're in and ready to work. 


The authentication procedures require a great deal of precision,
but at the same time they must not devour a lot of energy,
because you also know from your experience how quickly a battery
can run down. This makes the so-called time-of-flight sensing
technology, which makes such applications possible, all the more
important. 


Low-power time-of-flight sensing technology from ams OSRAM
enables host systems to measure distances accurately and at
exceedingly high speed. Accurate distance measurements are used
in various applications including presence detection, human
facial recognition and advanced cameras.


To find out exactly how this all works and what other use cases
are possible with time-of-flight, I invited my colleague David
Smith, Senior Marketing Manager for direct Time of Flight Sensors
to join us in the Photonstudio today. Dave, welcome!