ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,965, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Distance measuring apparatus and distance measuring method" was invented by Mitsuharu Ohki (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distance measuring apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a light-receiving unit, a histogram acquiring unit, and an operation unit. The light-receiving unit receives reflected light from a distance measurement target. The reflected light is based on irradiation light from a light-emitting unit. The histogram acquiring unit acquires a histogram indicating the frequency of...