US Patent Issued to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPAN on May 12 for "Imaging apparatus and variation information calculation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,236, issued on May 12, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPAN (Kyoto, Japan).

"Imaging apparatus and variation information calculation method" was invented by Keiichi Mori (Osaka, Japan) and Mayu Ogawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes: a light emitter that irradiates a subject with light; and a solid-state imaging device that includes pixel units each of which converts received light into a signal charge, and a signal processor that calculates distance information indicating a distance to the subject. When one or more of the pixel units receive reflected light which is the light ...