US Patent Issued to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY on Sept. 30 for "Distance image measuring device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,585, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY (Japan).

"Distance image measuring device" was invented by Shoji Kawahito (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distance image sensor including a light source that generates pulsed light, a light source control means that controls the light source, a pixel circuit including a photoelectric conversion region, charge reading regions, a charge discharging region, and control electrodes, a charge transfer control means that outputs control pulses to the control electrodes, and a distance calculation means that reads voltages of the ...