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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2021
Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Brightway Vision Ltd., Tirat Hacarmel, IL;
Yoshihisa Endo, Shizuoka, JP;
Jun Kano, Shizuoka, JP;
Manabu Kato, Shizuoka, JP;
Yuichi Watano, Shizuoka, JP;
KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
BRIGHTWAY VISION LTD., Tirat Hacarmel, IL;
Abstract
A gated camera for dividing a field of view into a plurality of ranges in a depth direction and generating a plurality of slice images corresponding to the plurality of ranges, the gated camera includes: an illumination device configured to irradiate the field of view with pulse illumination light; an image sensor; a camera controller configured to control a light emission timing of the illumination device and an exposure timing of the image sensor; and an arithmetic processing device configured to process image data generated by the image sensor. The arithmetic processing device is configured to acquire information on weather based on the image data obtained for a predetermined range in a weather detection mode.