US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Aug. 12 for "Depth acquisition device and depth acquisition method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,352, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Depth acquisition device and depth acquisition method" was invented by Takeo Azuma (Kyoto, Japan), Satoshi Sato (Kyoto, Japan), Nobuhiko Wakai (Tokyo), Kohsuke Yoshioka (Osaka, Japan), Noritaka Shimizu (Osaka, Japan), Yoshinao Kawai (Kyoto, Japan), Takaaki Amada (Kyoto, Japan), Yoko Kawai (Osaka, Japan), Takeshi Murai (Kyoto, Japan) and Hiroki Takeuchi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A depth acquisition device includes memory and processor performing: acquiring, from the memory, intensities of infrared light emitt...