ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,744, issued on May 27, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Optical apparatus, in-vehicle system, and mobile apparatus" was invented by Tomoaki Kawakami (Tochigi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical apparatus includes a deflector configured to deflect illumination light from a light source unit so as to scan an object and configured to deflect reflected light from the object, a light guide configured to guide part of the illumination light from the light source unit to the deflector, another part to a first light receiving element, and the reflected light from the deflector to a second light receiving element, and an opti...