US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on April 14 for "Image processing circuitry and image processing method for depth estimation in a time-of-flight system" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,801, issued on April 14, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Image processing circuitry and image processing method for depth estimation in a time-of-flight system" was invented by Yasunobu Hitomi (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing circuitry for a time-of-flight system configured to: generate, based on obtained image data of a plurality of pixels representing a time-of-flight measurement of light reflected from a scene that is illuminated with spotted light, corresponding component data including component values of the plurality of pixels; calculate, based on th...