ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,346, issued on May 20, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Time measurement device" was invented by Hiroki Hiyama (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time measurement device according to the present disclosure includes: a first light receiving unit; a first timing detection unit; a first calculation unit; and a histogram generation unit. The first light receiving unit is configured to detect first pulse light and second pulse light. The first pulse light corresponds to emission pulse light emitted from a light emitting unit. The second pulse light includes reflected light by a target o...