US Patent Issued to DENSO on July 28 for "Distance measurement device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,392, issued on July 28, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Distance measurement device" was invented by Kenta Azuma (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distance measurement device includes a light emitting and receiving units, and a calculation unit that uses a time-of-flight to calculate an object distance. The calculation unit includes: a histogram generation unit; a composite peak portion estimation unit that estimates whether a composite peak portion is present in a histogram, the composite peak portion being a peak portion at which the received light intensity changes with respect to the time-of-...