ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,426, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Brookman Technology Inc. (Hamamatsut Shizuoka, Japan).
"Distance image capturing device and distance image capturing method" was invented by Masanori Nagase (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Keigo Isobe (Hamamatsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distance image capturing device according to the present invention includes a light source unit that emits radiation light into a measurement space which is a space to be measured, a distance image sensor that receives light including reflected light reflected from an object in the measurement space as incident light, accumulates charges generated by the i...