US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Nov. 3 for "Time-of-flight object detection circuitry and time-of-flight object detection method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,574, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Time-of-flight object detection circuitry and time-of-flight object detection method" was invented by Antoine Durigneux (Stuttgart, Germany), David Dal Zot (Stuttgart, Germany) and Varun Arora (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally pertains to time-of-flight object detection circuitry for detecting a mobile phone in a hand of a user of a vehicle, the time-of-flight object detection circuitry being configured to: detect the mobile phone in the hand of the user based on a predefined reflectivity patter...