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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2020
Applicant:
Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventors:
Qing Ding, Stuttgart, DE;
Ward Van Der Tempel, Muizen, BE;
Assignee:
Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 17/10 (2020.01); G01S 7/4863 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/4863 (2013.01); G01S 17/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
A time-of-flight apparatus having a light detector for detecting light reflected from a scene, wherein the light detector has at least one light detection element; and circuitry configured to acquire light detection events for the at least one light detection element at selected points of time of a set of predetermined number of consecutive times, wherein the selection of the points of time is based on a time compressive sampling.