US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on June 2 for "Time-of-flight histogram super-resolution shape fitting" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,971, issued on June 2, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Time-of-flight histogram super-resolution shape fitting" was invented by Andreas Assmann (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of ranging using a time-of-flight (ToF) ranging system includes: receiving, by a processor, a histogram generated by a ToF imager of the ToF ranging system, where the ToF imager is configured to transmit a light pulse for ranging purpose; finding a rising edge of a pulse region in the histogram, where the pulse region corresponds to a reflected light pulse from a target; fine-tuning a location of...