US Patent Issued to TOPPAN on Sept. 15 for "Range imaging device and range imaging method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,636, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to TOPPAN Inc. (Tokyo).

"Range imaging device and range imaging method" was invented by Kunihiro Hatakeyama (Taito-ku, Japan) and Satoshi Takahashi (Taito-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A range imaging device includes a light-receiving unit including at least one pixel circuit including a photoelectric conversion element that generates charge in response to incident light, N (Nless than=3) charge storage units that integrate charge in a frame cycle, and transfer transistors, and a pixel drive circuit that causes the transfer transistors to distribute charge to the charge storage units ...