Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Photodetector
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Application No.: US16584033Application Date: 2019-09-26
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Publication No.: US11668826B2Publication Date: 2023-06-06
- Inventor: Takehiro Hata , Noriyuki Ozaki , Teiyu Kimura , Kenta Azuma , Shinji Kashiwada
- Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Kariya
- Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kariya
- Agency: Maschoff Brennan
- Priority: JP 2017065325 2017.03.29 JP 2018011556 2018.01.26
- Main IPC: G01S17/10
- IPC: G01S17/10 ; H01L31/0232 ; G01C3/08 ; G01S7/481

Abstract:
A light reception array unit receives light irradiated from an irradiation unit and reflected from an object, and outputs in parallel a pulse signal respectively output from a plurality of light reception units. A timer unit measures an elapsed time since an input of an irradiation timing signal. A response acquisition unit acquires a number of responses, which is a number of the light reception units outputting the pulse signal, at each fixed cycle timing, and outputs an adjusted number of responses obtained by subtracting a bias value from the number of responses or dividing the number of responses by the bias value. An address of a memory is associated with a timer value measured by the timer unit. A histogram generation unit integrates and stores, in a memory address specified from a timer value, the adjusted number of responses as data at that address.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200018853A1 PHOTODETECTOR Public/Granted day:2020-01-16
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