US Patent Issued to KOITO MANUFACTURING on July 29 for "Gating camera, sensing system for vehicle, vehicle lamp" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,819, issued on July 29, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Gating camera, sensing system for vehicle, vehicle lamp" was invented by Kenichi Hoshi (Shizuoka, Japan), Yasuo Nakamura (Shizuoka, Japan) and Koji Itaba (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination device irradiates a field of view with pulsed illumination light. In a multi-tap type image sensor, one pixel has a plurality of FD (floating diffusion) regions. A camera controller controls a light emission timing of the illumination device and an exposure timing of the image sensor. A pulse exposure region, which is one of the plurality of ...