Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus for measuring distance using two-step tracking based on SPAD sensor and method thereof
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Application No.: US16058448Application Date: 2018-08-08
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Publication No.: US10746543B2Publication Date: 2020-08-18
- Inventor: Seong Ook Jung , Jung Hyun Park , Jong Ha Park
- Applicant: INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY
- Applicant Address: KR Seoul
- Assignee: INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee: INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee Address: KR Seoul
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@3e4ec3c8
- Main IPC: G01C3/08
- IPC: G01C3/08 ; H01L31/02 ; G01S7/487 ; G01S7/4865

Abstract:
Disclosed are an apparatus for measuring distance using two-step tracking and a method thereof. More particularly, the apparatus includes a bit generator configured to generate coarse bits for first tracking from sensing data to measure distance to a target and fine bits for second tracking, corresponding to the coarse bits, to measure precise distance to the target; a coarse bit processor configured to receive the coarse bits, address the received coarse bits in any one histogram bin, which corresponds to the received coarse bits, among a plurality of histogram bins, and output coarse bits, which correspond to any one histogram bin exceeding a preset threshold among the histogram bins, as reference coarse bits; and a fine bit processor configured to output fine bits corresponding to the reference coarse bits.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190049243A1 APPARATUS FOR MEASURING DISTANCE USING TWO-STEP TRACKING BASED ON SPAD SENSOR AND METHOD THEREOF Public/Granted day:2019-02-14
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