US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Oct. 21 for "Distance measuring sensor, signal processing method, and distance measuring module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,516, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Distance measuring sensor, signal processing method, and distance measuring module" was invented by Masahiro Watanabe (Tokyo), Tomonori Masuno (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takeshi Sasaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Distance measuring is disclosed. In one example, a distance measuring sensor includes a light receiving unit that receives reflected light obtained by reflection of irradiation light emitted from a predetermined light emitting source by an object; a depth calculation unit that calculates distance information to the o...