US Patent Issued to HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES on May 6 for "Depth sensing system and depth sensing method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,531, issued on May 6, was assigned to HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES Ltd. (Tainan, Taiwan).

"Depth sensing system and depth sensing method" was invented by Wu-Feng Chen (Tainan, Taiwan), Ching-Wen Wang (Tainan, Taiwan), Cheng Che Tsai (Tainan, Taiwan) and Hsueh-Tsung Lu (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A depth sensing system and a depth sensing method are provided. The sensing system includes depth sensing module and a processor for performing the sensing method. The depth sensing method incudes: obtaining a sensed target data set via a depth sensing module; calculating a period number corresponding to a measuring pixel; and calcul...