ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,544, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Light ranging apparatus" was invented by Teiyu Kimura (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light ranging apparatus is provided with a light source; a light receiving unit having a plurality of light receiving elements capable of outputting a pulse signal; a summing unit calculating a sum value by summing the number of pulses; a histogram generation unit generating a histogram that records the sum value; a peak detecting unit acquiring the sum value of the peak in the histogram to be a signal intensity and calculating a distance value; and a first low sig...