US Patent Issued to KOITO MANUFACTURING on Feb. 24 for "Gating camera, vehicle sensing system, and vehicle lamp" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,022, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Gating camera, vehicle sensing system, and vehicle lamp" was invented by Koji Itaba (Shizuoka, Japan), Masayuki Takahashi (Shizuoka, Japan), Daiki Kato (Shizuoka, Japan), Shun Tanemoto (Shizuoka, Japan), Masatoshi Suzuki (Shizuoka, Japan) and Keita Kondo (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gating camera divides a field of view in a depth direction into multiple slices, and generates multiple slice images that correspond to the multiple slices. An illumination apparatus emits illumination light. A camera controller controls a light emission ti...