ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,019, issued on May 13, was assigned to Japan Display Inc. (Tokyo) and The University of Tokyo (Tokyo).
"Detection device" was invented by Hirofumi Kato (Tokyo), Makoto Uchida (Tokyo), Takanori Tsunashima (Tokyo), Takashi Nakamura (Tokyo), Akio Takimoto (Tokyo), Takao Someya (Tokyo) and Tomoyuki Yokota (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection device includes a plurality of optical sensors arranged in a detection area, a light source configured to emit light that is emitted to an object to be detected and is detected by the optical sensors, and a processor configured to perform processing based on outputs from the optical sens...