G01S 7/4915
Time delay measurement
Official title: Time delay measurement, e.g. operational details for pixel components (signal extraction and conditioning G01S7/493); Phase measurement
G01S7/4915 (Time delay measurement) appears on 448 US grants and 644 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01S- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 644
- Assignees
- 281
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Time-of-flight sensor and method for adjusting an exposure time of such a sensor6 Oct 2026US 12,754,297 B2STMicroelectronics France
- Time-of-flight motion misalignment artifact correction6 Oct 2026US 12,754,298 B2GM Cruise Holdings LLC
- Depth calculation method and system based on time of flight, and storage medium22 Sep 2026US 12,742,862 B2Orbbec Inc.
- Time of flight detection systems with efficient phase measurement15 Sep 2026US 12,736,675 B2Banner Engineering Corp.
- Active imaging system8 Sep 2026US 12,730,201 B2Commissariat A L' Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
- Indoor lidar plenoptic sensor array based on time-of-flight reflection24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287720 A1UNM Rainforest Innovations
- Solid-state laser beam steering techniques for fmcw lidar27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251763 A1Velodyne Lidar USA, Inc.
- Circuitry and method27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251796 A1Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Transmit signal design for an optical distance measurement system13 Aug 2026US 2026/0235735 A1Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Control, control method and time-of-flight device13 Aug 2026US 2026/0235740 A1Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for photomixing158US 6,825,455 B12004
- Method and apparatus for determining the phase and/or amplitude information of an electromagnetic wave for photomixing146US 7,053,357 B22006
- Method and device for measuring distances71US 6,864,966 B2Leica Geosystems AG · 2005
- Methods for CMOS-compatible three-dimensional image sensing using quantum efficiency modulation69US 6,515,740 B2Canesta, Inc. · 2003
- Optical phased arrays67US 9,476,981 B2Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2016