US Patent Issued to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPAN on Jan. 20 for "Object detection device and object detection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,796, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPAN (Kyoto, Japan).

"Object detection device and object detection method" was invented by Tetsuro Okuyama (Osaka, Japan), Yoshinao Kawai (Kyoto, Japan) and Masaki Kanemaru (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object detection device includes: a light emitter that emits light; a sensor that generates a first pixel signal by exposure to reflected light according to a combination of emission by the light emitter and first exposure and a second pixel signal by exposure to reflected light according to a combination of the emission and second exposure; and a dista...