ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,393, issued on July 28, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, optical apparatus, optical system, on-board system, moving apparatus, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Takeshi Ogawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus is configured to control an optical apparatus that acquires distance information to an object and includes a light emitter configured to emit to the object pulsed light at a plurality of emission intervals set to be at unequal time intervals, and a light receiver configured to detect the pulsed light reflected by the object. The control apparatus acquires first and...