US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on May 12 for "Distance measuring device and distance measuring method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,264, issued on May 12, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Distance measuring device and distance measuring method" was invented by Haruhiko Terada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a distance measuring device and a distance measuring method capable of achieving LiDAR with high accuracy at low cost. In a plurality of division times obtained by dividing a modulation cycle for chirp-modulating frequencies of transmission beams of a plurality of channels, light emission and extinction of a plurality of light sources are controlled in a unique pattern for each light source, an i...