US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Oct. 27 for "Distance measuring device, distance measuring system, and method of adjusting distance measuring device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,076, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Distance measuring device, distance measuring system, and method of adjusting distance measuring device" was invented by Ying Yang (Kanagawa, Japan), Kensei Jo (Tokyo), Takafumi Fujita (Kanagawa, Japan) and Nana Matsumoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Distance measuring is disclosed. In one example, a distance measuring device includes a ToF (time of flight) sensor, a distance calculation unit, a mode switching unit, and an estimation unit. The ToF sensor has a sensor clock that controls a photographing timing. The sensor ...