ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,463, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Time of flight apparatus and method" was invented by Manuel Amaya-Benitez (Stuttgart, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time-of-flight apparatus has: a light source for emitting light pulses to a scene; a light detector for detecting light from the scene; and a control, the control being configured to: drive the light source to emit light pulses, based on a time shift pattern; and drive the light detector for detecting light in accordance with the time shift pattern."
The patent was filed on Sept. 5, 2019, under Application No. 17/2...