ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,834, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to LITE-ON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).
"Ranging system and ranging method thereof" was invented by Tzu-Chia Liu (Taipei, Taiwan), Chi-Min Weng (Taipei, Taiwan) and Jiun-Shiung Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ranging system includes a pinhole camera, a fisheye camera and a processor. The pinhole camera captures a pinhole image. The fisheye camera captures a fisheye image. The processor performs a undistorting process on the fisheye image to obtain a corresponding undistorted fisheye image, perform a size-converting process on the pinhole image to obtain a corresponding ...