Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Distance sensor, distance measurement device, and image sensor
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Application No.: US16635626Application Date: 2018-07-26
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Publication No.: US11953597B2Publication Date: 2024-04-09
- Inventor: Yoshitaka Egawa
- Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Kanagawa
- Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kanagawa
- Agency: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
- Priority: JP 17152501 2017.08.07
- International Application: PCT/JP2018/028070 2018.07.26
- International Announcement: WO2019/031261A 2019.02.14
- Date entered country: 2020-01-31
- Main IPC: G01S17/10
- IPC: G01S17/10 ; G01S7/484 ; G01S7/4861 ; G01S7/4865

Abstract:
A distance sensor according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a controller that instructs a light source section to emit a first light pulse; a light receiver that includes a photodiode which causes a signal charge to be generated by receiving a first reflected light pulse corresponding to the first light pulse, and generates a light reception signal by storing the signal charge and converting the signal charge into a voltage; a signal change detector that performs a first detection operation of detecting a first signal change corresponding to the first reflected light pulse in the light reception signal; and a time measurement section that performs, on a basis of the first signal change, a first measurement operation of measuring a first time interval from an emission timing of the first light pulse in the light source section to a reception timing of the first reflected light pulse in the light receiver.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210124047A1 DISTANCE SENSOR, DISTANCE MEASUREMENT DEVICE, AND IMAGE SENSOR Public/Granted day:2021-04-29
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