US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Aug. 18 for "Distance measurement device, distance measurement method, and distance measurement program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,533, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Distance measurement device, distance measurement method, and distance measurement program" was invented by Tomonori Masuda (Saitama, Japan) and Hiroshi Tamayama (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distance measurement device includes an imaging unit which captures a subject image formed by an imaging optical system forming the subject image indicating a subject, an emission unit which emits directional light as light having directivity along an optical axis direction of the imaging optical system, a light receiving unit which receives reflected light of di...