ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,776, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Distance measuring device" was invented by Hiroaki Ono (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a light receiving unit (12) performs light reception for each phase according to light emission of a light source unit (11), a distance measuring unit (131) calculates distance information on the basis of a light reception signal for each phase output by the light receiving unit according to the light reception for each phase. A control unit (130) controls a level of the light reception signal for each phase in accordance with the cal...