US Patent Issued to CANON on Feb. 24 for "Time-to-digital conversion device, ranging device, and movable body" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,320, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Time-to-digital conversion device, ranging device, and movable body" was invented by Yuji Nakajima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time-to-digital conversion device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is a time-to-digital conversion device configured to output time digital data according to a time from a first timing to a second timing, including a first circuit that includes an upper counter configured to start counting a clock signal according to the first timing, and generates upper bits of the time digital data; a second circuit that includes a ...