US Patent Issued to KOITO MANUFACTURING on March 11 for "Gating camera, sensing system for vehicle, and lighting unit for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,469, issued on March 11, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Gating camera, sensing system for vehicle, and lighting unit for vehicle" was invented by Daiki Kato (Shizuoka, Japan), Masayuki Takahashi (Shizuoka, Japan), Koji Itaba (Shizuoka, Japan) and Shun Tanemoto (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gated camera divides a depth direction into a plurality of ranges and generates a plurality of slice images corresponding to the plurality of ranges. An illumination device radiates probe light. A controller controls a light emission timing of the illumination device and an exposure timing of an image se...