US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Sept. 15 for "Distance measurement device and distance measurement method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,632, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Distance measurement device and distance measurement method" was invented by Hiroaki Nishimori (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to sufficiently consider safety of human eyes in distance measurement. The present technology relates to a distance measurement device including: an irradiation unit configured to emit light to a target space; a light receiving unit configured to receive observation light in the target space and including a plurality of light receiving elements that outputs an ...