US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 14 for "Time-of-flight depth sensing with improved linearity" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,926, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Time-of-flight depth sensing with improved linearity" was invented by Shingo Mandai (Mountain View, Calif.), Cristiano L Niclass (San Jose, Calif.), Nadav Fine (Herzliya, Israel), Oz Barak (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Rahmi Hezar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optical sensing apparatus includes a radiation source, which directs a series of optical pulses toward a target scene. A first array of single-photon detectors receives optical radiation that is reflected from the target scene and outputs electrical pulses in response to incident photons. A sec...