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公开(公告)号:US20190129012A1
公开(公告)日:2019-05-02
申请号:US16147738
申请日:2018-09-29
Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor: YOSHIKI IKUTA , TAKUMA HIRAMATSU , TAKAYUKI SHIMIZU , HIDEKI SATO
Abstract: A selection circuit selects one of digital values respectively output from a TDC 1 and a TDC 2. A histogram generation circuit generates a histogram indicating a relationship between a bin number and a frequency by counting up the frequency of the bin number according to the digital value selected by the selection circuit.
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公开(公告)号:US20200088875A1
公开(公告)日:2020-03-19
申请号:US16613999
申请日:2018-03-14
Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor: HIDEKI SATO , TAKUMA HIRAMATSU , TAKAYUKI SHIMIZU , YOSHIKI IKUTA
IPC: G01S17/10 , G01S7/486 , H01L31/107
Abstract: An optical sensor for appropriately updating a crosstalk value is provided with: a photon-counting type of first light-receiving unit for receiving target object reflected light and cover panel reflected light; and a determination circuit that determines whether or not the target object reflected light is received by the first light-receiving unit, on the basis of a first received light pulse signal that is based on at least one of the target object reflected light and the cover panel reflected light, and a reference pulse signal.
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公开(公告)号:US20190195993A1
公开(公告)日:2019-06-27
申请号:US16328531
申请日:2017-06-09
Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor: HIDEKI SATO , YOSHIKI IKUTA , TAKAYUKI SHIMIZU , TAKUMA HIRAMATSU
CPC classification number: G01S7/4865 , G01C3/06 , G01J1/42 , G01J1/44 , G01J2001/442 , G01S7/486 , G01S17/10
Abstract: An optical sensor configured to reduce a measurement time while the accuracy of the optical sensor is maintained is realized. An initial configuration circuit (19) includes a counter configured to perform counting of the number of pulse outputs from a first light-receiving unit (11) in first to nth regions obtained by dividing each cycle of a reference clock into n equal parts, determines, among the first to nth regions, a region in which a counter value is largest, and the initial configuration circuit causes a first DLL circuit (17) to perform a converging operation to the region determined.
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公开(公告)号:US20170138786A1
公开(公告)日:2017-05-18
申请号:US15115721
申请日:2015-02-24
Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
Inventor: TAKAYUKI SHIMIZU , TAKAHIRO INOUE , HIDEKI SATO
IPC: G01J1/04 , H01L31/101 , H01L27/146 , H01L31/0216 , G01J1/42 , G01J1/44
CPC classification number: G01J1/0407 , G01J1/4204 , G01J1/4228 , G01J1/429 , G01J1/44 , G01J2001/446 , H01L27/14621 , H01L27/14623 , H01L27/14625 , H01L27/14647 , H01L31/02162 , H01L31/1013
Abstract: A light receiver capable of detecting the intensity of light in a certain wavelength range is provided. The light receiver includes a first light receiving element (PD1) and a second light receiving element (PD2) that have an identical spectral sensitivity characteristic, and a UV cut filter (11). Light that has passed through the UV cut filter (11) enters the first light receiving element (PD1). A subtractor is provided that calculates a difference between a photocurrent of the first light receiving element (PD1) and a photocurrent of the second light receiving element (PD2).
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公开(公告)号:US20210141069A1
公开(公告)日:2021-05-13
申请号:US16613985
申请日:2018-03-29
Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor: TAKAYUKI SHIMIZU , TAKUMA HIRAMATSU , YOSHIKI IKUTA , HIDEKI SATO
Abstract: Effects of ambient light are suppressed, and distance to a detection object is measured with high precision. A ranging sensor includes a VCSEL, a SPAD array that has multiple SPADs that detect photons of pulse light emitted by the VCSEL, a SPAD array that has multiple SPADs that detect photons of reflected light where the pulse light has been reflected by a detection object, a DLL that measures a time difference between a pulse signal output from the SPADs of the SPAD array and a pulse signal output from the SPADs of the SPAD array, an ambient-light-incident SPAD determining unit that determines a SPAD on which ambient light is incident, based on pulse signals output from SPADs of the SPAD array when the VCSEL is not emitting light, and a SPAD front-end circuit that stops operation of the SPAD for which determination is made that ambient light is incident.
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公开(公告)号:US20190259902A1
公开(公告)日:2019-08-22
申请号:US16305870
申请日:2017-05-31
Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor: TAKAYUKI SHIMIZU
IPC: H01L31/12 , H01L27/144 , H01L31/02 , H01L31/107 , G01S17/89 , G01S7/484 , G01S17/10 , G03B13/20 , G03B13/36
Abstract: A light detection devices includes a SPAD bias control block that adjusts a reverse bias voltage in accordance with a pulse number of a pulse signal which is output by a SPAD array upon incidence of first light.
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公开(公告)号:US20210018628A1
公开(公告)日:2021-01-21
申请号:US16926498
申请日:2020-07-10
Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor: HIDEKI SATO , TAKUMA HIRAMATSU , TAKAYUKI SHIMIZU , YOSHIKI IKUTA
IPC: G01S17/66 , G01S7/481 , G01S17/86 , G01S7/4863 , G01S7/484
Abstract: A ranging sensor includes a light emitting unit includes a plurality of light emitting elements, a light receiving unit including a plurality of light receiving elements, a space control unit, a position estimation unit, and a TOF signal processing unit, operates in cooperation with an RGB camera module, and generates target distance information for generating three-dimensional position information. The space control unit independently controls each element group including a light emitting element and a light receiving element allocated to a common subspace. The position estimation unit estimates, from received light amount distribution of a plurality of light receiving elements receiving a reflected light beam from the target existing in a space of each subspace, a position of the target in the space of the subspace group. The TOF signal processing unit performs TOF signal processing in parallel with channels whose number is less than that of light emitting elements.
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公开(公告)号:US20190129015A1
公开(公告)日:2019-05-02
申请号:US16306514
申请日:2017-04-21
Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor: YOSHIKI IKUTA , HIDEKI SATO , TAKUMA HIRAMATSU , TAKAYUKI SHIMIZU
Abstract: An optical sensor of the present invention changes a light-emitting period of a light-emitting element and a period of a reference clock that is used by a time difference extracting circuit, depending on whether or not a digital value that is output from a first digital calculating portion exceeds a reference value in a determination period. With this, there is achieved an optical sensor capable of maintaining both of measurement accuracy at short distance and measurement accuracy at long distance when a housing panel is present between the optical sensor and a detection target.
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公开(公告)号:US20190257689A1
公开(公告)日:2019-08-22
申请号:US16330957
申请日:2017-06-02
Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor: YOSHIKI IKUTA , TAKUMA HIRAMATSU , TAKAYUKI SHIMIZU , HIDEKI SATO
IPC: G01J1/42 , H01L31/107 , H01L31/12 , G01S17/10
Abstract: Whether an optical delay on a space optical path is within a light emission cycle is accurately determined without narrowing a range of a measurable distance in the light emission cycle. A DFF 1 that divides an output pulse of a first DLL (121) by two to provide a first time offset and a DFF 2 that divides an output pulse of a second DLL (122) by two to provide a second time offset are included, and at least following mathematical formulas (1) and (2) are satisfied: (1) (2) (where, m≥1),when a time corresponding to a difference between the first time offset and the second time offset is O1 and the first cycle is T1.
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公开(公告)号:US20190159309A1
公开(公告)日:2019-05-23
申请号:US16155832
申请日:2018-10-09
Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor: TAKAYUKI SHIMIZU , YOSHIKI IKUTA , HIDEKI SATO , TAKUMA HIRAMATSU
CPC classification number: H05B33/0815 , G09G3/32 , H05B33/0827 , H05B33/0851 , H05B33/0854 , H05B37/02 , H05B37/0227
Abstract: There is provided a VCSEL drive circuit that causes a VCSEL to emit pulsed light in a light emission period, including a drive adjustment unit that adjust a first voltage which is a voltage of drains of a PMOS transistor and an NMOS transistor in a constant current circuit and a second voltage which is a voltage of a drain of an NMOS transistor that drives the VCSEL to be the same voltage in a pre-light emission period before the light emission period.
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