US Patent Issued to TOPPAN on March 17 for "Range imaging device and range imaging method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,214, issued on March 17, was assigned to TOPPAN Inc. (Tokyo).

"Range imaging device and range imaging method" was invented by Yu Ookubo (Taito-ku, Japan), Tomohiro Nakagome (Taito-ku, Japan), Kunihiro Hatakeyama (Taito-ku, Japan), Hiroshige Goto (Yokohama, Japan), Satoshi Takahashi (Taito-ku, Japan) and Yasuyuki Hitsuoka (Taito-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A range imaging device includes a light source unit that emits light pulses to a measurement space; a light-receiving unit including a photoelectric conversion element that generates charge according to light incident from the space, a pixel circuit including charge st...