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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:
Sep. 23, 2025

Filed:

Mar. 04, 2022
Applicant:

Denso Corporation, Kariya, JP;

Inventors:

Takayoshi Fujisawa, Kariya, JP;

Akifumi Ueno, Kariya, JP;

Noriyuki Ozaki, Kariya, JP;

Assignee:

DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/4861 (2020.01); G01S 7/487 (2006.01); G01S 17/10 (2020.01); G01S 17/931 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 17/931 (2020.01); G01S 7/4861 (2013.01); G01S 7/487 (2013.01); G01S 17/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

In a ranging device, a characteristic setting unit is configured to extract, from one or more pieces of received-light information representing changes with time in amount of received light acquired by the light receiving unit, at least one of a received-light amount range and a light reception time range of pulsed light other than emitted light from the light emitting unit, as a specified range. A received-light integration unit is configured to generate integrated received-light information by integrating the received-light information on a time axis with emission timings matched over a plurality of light receptions. A distance calculation unit is configured to exclude or identify distance noise formed of pulsed waveforms arising from pulsed light other than the emitted light, using the specified range extracted by the characteristic setting unit, and calculate a distance to the object reflecting the emitted light.


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