US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 3 for "Distance measurement system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,899, issued on June 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Distance measurement system" was invented by Kazuki Horiba (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Mitsuhiro Kinoshita (Mishima, Japan) and Hiroki Saito (Shizuoka-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The distance measurement system includes an emitter emitting light, a receiver having a pixel array at which are formed a plurality of pixels detecting light reflected from an object, a processor configured to calculate distance data relating to a distance to the object for each of the plurality of pixels based on a result of detection of the reflected light, and u...