US Patent Issued to PIXART IMAGING INCORPORATION on June 30 for "High precision photonic distance meter circuit and distance measuring method" (Malaysian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,606, issued on June 30, was assigned to PIXART IMAGING INCORPORATION (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"High precision photonic distance meter circuit and distance measuring method" was invented by Wen-Hao Ho (Hsinchu, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distance meter circuit includes: a driver for generating a driving pulse according to a measuring control signal to drive a laser diode to emit a light pulse to an object; a photonic sensing device for generating a first light conversion signal in response to the light pulse reflected by the object; a read-out circuit for measuring a TOF of the light pulse reflected by the object; an adjustab...