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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2022
Denso Corporation, Kariya-city, JP;
Noriyuki Ozaki, Kariya-city, JP;
Yoshihide Tachino, Kariya-city, JP;
Takehiro Hata, Kariya-city, JP;
DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya-city, JP;
Abstract
An object detection apparatus includes: a light emission part; a light reception part; a time determination part that determines an environmental light acquisition time during which to acquire environmental light in accordance with the intensity of the environmental light; a light reception control part that controls an operation of receiving incident light by the light reception part; and a light emission control part that controls a light emission operation by the light emission part. The light reception control part causes the light reception part to execute a light reception operation by which to acquire the environmental light during the determined environmental light acquisition time.