US Patent Issued to DENSO on Jan. 13 for "Ranging device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,772, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Ranging device" was invented by Kazuki Kato (Kariya, Japan), Kenichi Yanai (Kariya, Japan) and Kenta Azuma (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a ranging device for measuring a distance to an object, a distance image acquisition unit is configured to, using light reception signal, acquire a distance image that indicates, at each pixel, a distance to the object within a region illuminated with illumination light. A background light image acquisition unit is configured to, using the light reception signals, acquire a background light image that indicates ...