REAL3™ hybrid Time-of-Flight (hToF)
Infineon and partners have developed hToF as a cost-efficient depth sensing technology for consumer products. Particularly for consumer robotics, the smaller hToF sensors help designing slimmer robots compared to robots equipped with laser-distance-sensor (LDS) towers.
The unique hToF technology uses Infineon’s high-resolution REAL3™ ToF sensor along with a homogenous flood illumination and a powerful spot grid illumination offering a cost-efficient solution. The hToF camera’s broad, 110° horizontal field-ofview (FoV) is ideal for both SLAM and obstacle avoidance. hToF works in all lighting conditions from complete darkness up to bright sunlight and across a large variety of furniture and floor reflectivity and textures. This technology advancement provides a huge advantage over other technologies such as structured light that struggles in bright sunlight, and also stereo vision that has difficulties in darkness and with repetitive textures.