US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Sept. 9 for "Measurement device and distance measuring device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,217, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Measurement device and distance measuring device" was invented by Kumiko Mahara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measurement device includes: a light receiving unit including a plurality of pixels disposed in a target region in a matrix array, a controller that designates one or more target pixels, of a plurality of pixels, from which a signal is to be read, and a signal processing unit that performs a signal process based on a signal read from one or more target pixels included in a block having a predetermined width in t...