US Patent Issued to KOITO MANUFACTURING on March 25 for "Gating camera" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,101, issued on March 25, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Gating camera" was invented by Koji Itaba (Shizuoka, Japan) and Jun Kano (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gating camera divides a field of view in a depth direction into multiple ranges, and generates multiple slice images that correspond to the multiple ranges. An illumination apparatus emits probe light. A controller controls a timing of emission of the probe light L1 by the illumination apparatus and a timing of image capture by a first image sensor and a second image sensor. The controller controls the first image sensor and the seco...