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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2024

Filed:

Mar. 23, 2022
Applicant:

Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Daiki Kato, Shizuoka, JP;

Masayuki Takahashi, Shizuoka, JP;

Koji Itaba, Shizuoka, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 17/931 (2020.01); G01S 7/484 (2006.01); G01S 7/486 (2020.01); G01S 7/4865 (2020.01); G01S 17/18 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/4868 (2013.01); G01S 7/484 (2013.01); G01S 7/4865 (2013.01); G01S 17/18 (2020.01); G01S 17/931 (2020.01);
Abstract

An illumination apparatus illuminates probe light. A gating camera captures an image for each of image capture ranges divided in the depth direction. A camera controller controls a timing at which the illumination apparatus illuminates the probe light and a timing at which an image sensor is exposed such that each slice image output from the image sensor for each image capture range includes only an object included in the corresponding image capture range while changing the image capture range. An image processing unit generates a final image including the entire object of interest based on the multiple slice images that correspond to the multiple image capture ranges.


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