ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,018, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Basler AG (Ahrensburg, Germany).
"Method of apparatus for determining distance information" was invented by Johannes Bostelmann (Tostedt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method of determining at least one piece of distance information for a three-dimensional image from at least two time-of-flight differences between light signals emitted by a light source of a time-of-flight camera and light signals received by an image sensor of the time-of-flight camera through scattering or reflection of the emitted light signals at at least one object."
The patent was file...