US Patent Issued to SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY on Dec. 9 for "Time-of-flight based distance measuring method and related distance measuring system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,110, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Time-of-flight based distance measuring method and related distance measuring system" was invented by Chung-Te Li (Guangdong, China), Hao-Jen Wang (Guangdong, China) and Meng-Ta Yang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time-of-flight distance measuring method and TOF distance measuring system. The distance measuring method includes: intermittently transmitting a plurality of pulses from a pulse generation unit; controlling a TOF sensor to allow each pixel of a plurality of pixels in the TOF sensor to continuously perform a fi...