US Patent Issued to NEC on Nov. 3 for "Ranging device, ranging device control method, and ranging system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,523, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ranging device, ranging device control method, and ranging system" was invented by Daisuke Takei (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To improve spatial resolution during measurement via LiDAR or the like, a ranging device comprises: at least one memory storing instructions; and at least one processor executing the instructions to measure the distance between a light-emitting device and an object on the basis of reflected light of a laser beam that is incident on a first beam diameter at a incidence position, adjust the beam diameter, of the laser beam on the incidence positi...