US Patent Issued to Nuvoton Technology Corporation Japan on July 14 for "Distance measurement device and distance measurement method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,177, issued on July 14, was assigned to Nuvoton Technology Corporation Japan (Kyoto, Japan).

"Distance measurement device and distance measurement method" was invented by Tomohito Nagata (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distance measurement device determines, out of pixels, first pixels that are readout targets and second pixels that are not readout targets; performs, on each of the first pixels, exposure operations of n types at different timings where n is an integer of at least 4; and reading out signal charges of n types to n packets in each of vertical transfer portions, the signal charges of the n types being gene...