ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,448, issued on April 22, was assigned to PIXART IMAGING INC. (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan).

"Optical distance measurement system with dynamic exposure time" was invented by Guo-Zhen Wang (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan) and Shiaw-Yu Jou (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an optical distance measurement system including an image sensor and a processing unit. The processing unit is configured to generate an image to be calculated according to at least one image captured by the image sensor, wherein different image regions of the image to be calculated correspond to different exposure times thereby improving t...