ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,355, issued on June 17, was assigned to SK HYNIX INC. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Image capturing apparatus" was invented by Dong Jin Lee (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Hyung June Yoon (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus may include a first time of flight (ToF) sensor configured to calculate a distance to a target object using the time difference between a reference pulse time at which a modulated light signal is irradiated and a pulse sensing time at which a reflected modulated light signal, reflected from the target object and incident thereon, is sensed, a second ToF sensor configured t...