ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,410, issued on July 15, was assigned to Lumileds LLC (San Jose, Calif.).
"Parallax correction for illumination system and method" was invented by Pieter Johannes Quintus van Voorst Vader (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Arjen Gerben Van der Sijde (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Nicola Bettina Pfeffer (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system can automatically measure a distance to an object. A camera, having a field of view that includes the object, can define a camera longitudinal axis that extends to a center of the field of view. An illuminator, defining an illuminator longitudinal axis that is substantially p...