Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optical sensor and electronic device
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Application No.: US14906768Application Date: 2014-06-12
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Publication No.: US09618609B2Publication Date: 2017-04-11
- Inventor: Yasuyuki Shirasaka , Takayuki Shimizu
- Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
- Priority: JP2013-189505 20130912
- International Application: PCT/JP2014/065588 WO 20140612
- International Announcement: WO2015/037293 WO 20150319
- Main IPC: G01B11/14
- IPC: G01B11/14 ; G01S7/481 ; G01S7/487 ; G01V8/12 ; G06F3/01 ; G01S17/02

Abstract:
An object is sensed without a malfunction due to disturbance light. An optical sensor (101) of an aspect of the invention includes: a light-emitting element (LED) which turns off and turns on alternately for each one period; a light-receiving element (PD1) which receives reflection light and generates a photocurrent; and an integrating circuit (11) which integrates the photocurrent in a positive direction in a period during which the light-emitting element turns on and integrates the photocurrent in a negative direction in a period during which the light-emitting element turns off. A sum of lengths of integration periods in a first period and a last period is same as a length of another integration period.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160178735A1 OPTICAL SENSOR AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Public/Granted day:2016-06-23
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