US Patent Issued to DENSO on June 23 for "Object detection apparatus and control method of object detection apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,520, issued on June 23, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Object detection apparatus and control method of object detection apparatus" was invented by Noriyuki Ozaki (Kariya-city, Japan), Yoshihide Tachino (Kariya-city, Japan) and Takehiro Hata (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object detection apparatus includes: a light emission part; a light reception part; a time determination part that determines an environmental light acquisition time during which to acquire environmental light in accordance with the intensity of the environmental light; a light reception control part that controls an operat...