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Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2022

Filed:

Sep. 17, 2019
Applicant:

Genoptics Precision Biotechnologies Inc., New Taipei, TW;

Inventor:

Teng-Chien Yu, Hsinchu, TW;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 17/88 (2006.01); G01S 7/4915 (2020.01); G01S 7/4861 (2020.01); G01S 7/4865 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 17/88 (2013.01); G01S 7/4861 (2013.01); G01S 7/4865 (2013.01); G01S 7/4915 (2013.01);
Abstract

A Time-of-Flight (ToF) ranging device and a ToF ranging method are provided. The ToF ranging device includes a signal processor, a light emitter, and a light sensor. The light emitter sequentially emits a plurality of intense pulsed lights to a sensing target. The light sensor sequentially receives the plurality of intense pulsed lights reflected by the sensing target to correspondingly output a plurality of pixel voltage signals. The signal processor generates a plurality of read-out voltage signals according to the plurality of pixel voltage signals. The signal processor compares the plurality of read-out voltage signals with a plurality of count signals to obtain a plurality of count values. The signal processor calculates an average value of the plurality of count values and determines a distance between the ToF ranging device and the sensing target according to the average value.


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