US Patent Issued to OMRON on May 5 for "Light detection device, light detection method and optical distance sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,951, issued on May 5, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Light detection device, light detection method and optical distance sensor" was invented by Masanobu Horino (Kyotanabe, Japan), Yuki Matsui (Kyoto, Japan), Ken Nakamuro (Kyoto, Japan) and Sayuki Nakada (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection device detects incident light acc ding to a detection start timing. The light detection device includes a plurality of photosensors, a signal combining circuit, a detection circuit, and at least one time measurement circuit. The plurality of photosensors receive light to generate output signals indicating light...