US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Dec. 16 for "Distance measuring device and distance measuring method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,479, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Distance measuring device and distance measuring method" was invented by Toshinobu Sugiyama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a distance measuring device that includes a light emitter that emits irradiation light; a light receiver that receives reflected light resulting from reflection of the irradiation light on a target object, a calculator that calculates a distance to the target object on the basis of a time from emission of the irradiation light to reception of the reflected light, and a light emission control...