ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,837, issued on April 14, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Distance measurement device" was invented by Yujiro Yanai (Minamiashigara, Japan) and Keisuke Kodama (Minamiashigara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide a distance measurement device capable of receiving measurement light reflected by an object by responding to a wide angle range with a high S/N ratio. The object is achieved by the distance measurement device including: an infrared light source; a light receiving section that receives an infrared ray emitted from the light source and reflected by an object; and a band-pass filter (BPF) member...