US Patent Issued to TDK on Sept. 29 for "Optical detection device and signal processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,166, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical detection device and signal processing method" was invented by Takekazu Yamane (Tokyo), Tetsuya Shibata (Tokyo), Weihao Zhang (Tokyo) and Hideaki Fukuzawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This optical detection device includes a first photoelectric conversion element that outputs a first output, and a second photoelectric conversion element that outputs a second output, and is configured to combine a first signal caused by the first output with a second signal caused by the second output, in a state where a first condition and a second condition are satisfied....