ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,358, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Optical distance measurement apparatus" was invented by Toshiaki Nagai (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical distance measurement apparatus includes a light source unit configured to emit pulsed light in units of the number of times determined in advance, a light receiving unit including a light receiving element which receives pulsed light reflected from a first object and configured to output a response signal in accordance with received light intensity of the pulsed light, and a control unit configured to generate a histogram by accumulating and...