US Patent Issued to CANON on Jan. 13 for "Optical apparatus, in-vehicle system, and moving apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,747, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Optical apparatus, in-vehicle system, and moving apparatus" was invented by Masatsugu Nakano (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical apparatus includes a deflection unit configured to deflect illumination light from a light source and to deflect reflected light from the object, and a light guide unit configured to guide the illumination light to the deflection unit and to guide the reflected light from the deflection unit to a light receiving unit. The light guide unit includes first and second passage areas, and a reflective area. The illumination light i...