US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Dec. 30 for "Distance measuring device, method for controlling distance measuring device, and electronic device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,638, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Distance measuring device, method for controlling distance measuring device, and electronic device" was invented by Hironaga Sano (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasuhiro Okamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroaki Ono (Kanagawa, Japan), Yukinao Kenjo (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takashi Kusakari (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distance measuring device of the present disclosure includes: a light source that irradiates a subject with light; a light detection unit that receives reflected light from the subject based on irradiation light from the light ...