US Patent Issued to PixArt Imaging on June 16 for "Optical time-of-flight sensor, method, and processing circuit capable of avoiding misjudgment of channel sampling" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,464, issued on June 16, was assigned to PixArt Imaging Inc. (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan).

"Optical time-of-flight sensor, method, and processing circuit capable of avoiding misjudgment of channel sampling" was invented by Yueh-Lin Chung (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan) and Tso-Sheng Tsai (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical time-of-flight sensor includes a sensor array and a channel sampling circuit. The channel sampling circuit is arranged for receiving a photon pulse signal, generated from a sensor unit of the sensor array, receiving a first channel selection signal to generate a first freezing signal, generating a fi...