Ranging device and ranging method

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 12078721
APP PUB NO 20200348416A1
SERIAL NO

16964673

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Ranging devices are disclosed. In one example, a ranging device includes a control register that holds a pixel mode. A pixel array includes light receiving units each detecting the incidence of photons. A reading circuit reads detection signals from each light receiving element with a sampling period. A pixel value generating circuit tallies, in units of pixels, the number of detection signals read from each light receiving element, and generates, for each sampling period, the pixel value of each pixel. A memory stores, for each pixel, a histogram of the pixel values in each sampling period. In a first pixel mode, an area having a first size in the memory is allotted to each pixel. In a second pixel mode, an area having a different, second size in the memory is allotted to each pixel.

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  • SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Hasegawa, Koichi Kanagawa, JP 131 1005
Sakaguchi, Hiroaki Kanagawa, JP 46 589

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