US Patent Issued to Himax Technologies on March 3 for "Time-of-flight 3D sensing system" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,273, issued on March 3, was assigned to Himax Technologies Ltd. (Tainan City, Taiwan).

"Time-of-flight 3D sensing system" was invented by Hsueh-Tsung Lu (Tainan City, Taiwan), Ching-Wen Wang (Tainan City, Taiwan), Cheng-Che Tsai (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Wu-Feng Chen (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time-of-flight (ToF) three-dimensional (3D) sensing system includes a projector that generates an emitted light corresponding to an emitted signal; a sensor that generates a received signal according to a reflected light; and a decoder that determines a distance between the sensor and the object according to the recei...