US Patent Issued to Canon on Dec. 9 for "Photodetection system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,922, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photodetection system" was invented by Kazuhiro Morimoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Daiki Shirahige (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a light source configured to emit pulsed laser light, and a photodetection unit including a plurality of photoelectric conversion units arranged in a two-dimensional plane, wherein an emission timing of the light source and a detection timing of the photodetection unit are controlled by a timing control unit, wherein the photodetection unit detects scattered light on the two-dimensional plane, of the pulsed laser ligh...