US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Oct. 7 for "Three-dimensional image capturing according to time-of-flight measurement and light spot pattern measurement" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,283, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Three-dimensional image capturing according to time-of-flight measurement and light spot pattern measurement" was invented by Jose Manuel Gil-Cacho (Stuttgart, Germany) and Sebastien Louveaux (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device comprising circuitry configured to disambiguate a first phase delay obtained according to an indirect Time-of-Flight principle to obtain a second phase delay, wherein the circuitry is configured to disambiguate the first phase delay based on a captured spot position."

The patent was...