US Patent Issued to TOPPAN on Jan. 27 for "Distance image capturing device and method for capturing distance image" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,591, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TOPPAN INC. (Tokyo).

"Distance image capturing device and method for capturing distance image" was invented by Shoji Kawahito (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Juyeong Kim (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distance image capturing device includes a light source, a photodiode configured to generate a charge corresponding to received light, and a peripheral circuit configured to control an operation of the pixel circuit unit, in which the peripheral circuit generates a first transfer control pulse and a second transfer control pulse based on the magnitude relationship between a first charge...