US Patent Issued to KOITO MANUFACTURING, BRIGHTWAY VISION on April 29 for "Vehicle-mounted sensing system and gated camera" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,515, issued on April 29, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and BRIGHTWAY VISION LTD. (Tirat Hacarmel, Israel).

"Vehicle-mounted sensing system and gated camera" was invented by Yoshihisa Endo (Shizuoka, Japan), Jun Kano (Shizuoka, Japan), Manabu Kato (Shizuoka, Japan) and Yuichi Watano (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gated camera for dividing a field of view into a plurality of ranges in a depth direction and generating a plurality of slice images corresponding to the plurality of ranges, the gated camera includes: an illumination device configured to irradiate the field of view with pulse illumina...