US Patent Issued to RICOH on Dec. 16 for "Distance-measuring apparatus and distance-measuring method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,467, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Distance-measuring apparatus and distance-measuring method" was invented by Hirokazu Takenaka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distance-measuring apparatus includes a light emitter to emit light with modulated frequency to an object, a light receiver to receive the light that is emitted from the light emitter and returns as reflected by the object, and a controller to measure, based on radiation intensity of received light by the light receiver, a length of time between a time at which the light is emitted by the light emitter and a time at which th...