Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Gating camera
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Application No.: US17701756Application Date: 2022-03-23
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Publication No.: US12135394B2Publication Date: 2024-11-05
- Inventor: Daiki Kato , Masayuki Takahashi , Koji Itaba
- Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Priority: JP2019-176006 20190926,JP2019-176007 20190926,JP2019-180897 20190930
- Main IPC: G01S17/931
- IPC: G01S17/931 ; G01S7/484 ; G01S7/486 ; G01S7/4865 ; G01S17/18

Abstract:
An illumination apparatus illuminates probe light. A gating camera captures an image for each of image capture ranges divided in the depth direction. A camera controller controls a timing at which the illumination apparatus illuminates the probe light and a timing at which an image sensor is exposed such that each slice image output from the image sensor for each image capture range includes only an object included in the corresponding image capture range while changing the image capture range. An image processing unit generates a final image including the entire object of interest based on the multiple slice images that correspond to the multiple image capture ranges.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220214434A1 GATING CAMERA Public/Granted day:2022-07-07
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