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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2023
Toppan Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Yu Ookubo, Taito-ku, JP;
Tomohiro Nakagome, Taito-ku, JP;
Kunihiro Hatakeyama, Taito-ku, JP;
Hiroshige Goto, Yokohama, JP;
Satoshi Takahashi, Taito-ku, JP;
Yasuyuki Hitsuoka, Taito-ku, JP;
TOPPAN Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A range imaging device includes a light source unit that emits light pulses to a measurement space; a light-receiving unit including a photoelectric conversion element that generates charge according to light incident from the space, a pixel circuit including charge storage units in which the charge is integrated in a frame cycle, and a pixel drive circuit that performs switching operation of transfer transistors to distribute the charge to the storage units for integration at integration timing synchronizing with emission of the pulses; and a distance calculation unit that calculates a distance between object in the space and the light-receiving unit based on charge determined by a first charge integrated in each storage unit. The calculation unit calculates the distance by subtracting a second charge from each first charge, the second charge being noise charge as an integrated charge other than the charge distributed and integrated by the switching operation.