ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,065, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Sense Photonics Inc. (Durham, N.C.).
"Event driven shared memory pixel" was invented by Robert Henderson (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Hod Finkelstein (Berkeley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Time of Flight (TOF) system includes an incrementing circuit and a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a plurality of detectors configured to output respective detection signals responsive to detection of a plurality of photons incident thereon and a shared memory configured to store a respective count of the photons incident on each of the plurality of detectors. The incrementing circuit i...