US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Feb. 11 for "Ranging system, calibration method, program, and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,442, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Ranging system, calibration method, program, and electronic apparatus" was invented by Shunji Maeda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ranging systems, calibration methods, programs, and electronic apparatus with lower cost calibration are disclosed. In one example, a ranging system includes a light source, a sensor that detects reflection light of light emitted from the light source and reflected on a target object, a determination unit that determines whether or not a peripheral object is usable as a reflection object on the ...