US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on July 22 for "Ranging apparatus and measuring apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,641, issued on July 22, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Ranging apparatus and measuring apparatus" was invented by Kumiko Mahara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ranging apparatus includes a photodetector including a light detecting device, a time measuring section for measuring a period of time from an emission timing at which a light source emits light to a detection timing at which the light detecting device detects the light, thereby acquiring measured values, a generating section for generating a histogram of the measured values, and a calculating section for calculating th...