US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 6 for "Distance image generation device and distance image generation method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,296, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Distance image generation device and distance image generation method" was invented by Hideyuki Ito (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distance image generation device including an acquisition unit configured to acquire a micro-frame constituted by a one-bit signal based on incident light to a photoelectric conversion element, and a synthesis unit configured to generate a sub-frame constituted by a multi-bit signal by synthesizing a plurality of the micro-frames acquired in different periods from each other. In one ranging frame period, the synthesis unit gener...