US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on March 17 for "Light source device and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,434, issued on March 17, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Light source device and electronic apparatus" was invented by Fumihiko Hanzawa (Tokyo), Masashi Nakamura (Tokyo), Hideaki Mogi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Go Asayama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image can be projected in a wide angular range while an increase in a beam diameter is suppressed. A light source device according to the present disclosure includes: a plurality of light emitting elements divided into a plurality of regions; and an optical unit that includes a plurality of first lens groups having a first focal le...