US 12,250,469 B2
Gating camera, sensing system for vehicle, and lighting unit for vehicle
Daiki Kato, Shizuoka (JP); Masayuki Takahashi, Shizuoka (JP); Koji Itaba, Shizuoka (JP); and Shun Tanemoto, Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/916,377
Filed by KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Apr. 2, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/014289
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 30, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/201269, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 7, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-066482 (JP), filed on Apr. 2, 2020; application No. 2020-068259 (JP), filed on Apr. 6, 2020; and application No. 2020-068260 (JP), filed on Apr. 6, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0156341 A1, May 18, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 23/72 (2023.01); H04N 23/73 (2023.01); H04N 23/74 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 23/72 (2023.01) [H04N 23/73 (2023.01); H04N 23/74 (2023.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A gated camera configured to divide a depth direction into a plurality of ranges and generate a plurality of slice images corresponding to the plurality of ranges, the gated camera comprising:
an illumination device configured to radiate probe light;
an image sensor including a plurality of pixels;
a controller configured to control a light emission timing of the illumination device and an exposure timing of the image sensor; and
an image processing device configured to generate the slice images based on a sensor image transmitted from the image sensor, the slice images including a first slice image closer to the gated camera and a second slice image farther from the gated camera,
wherein the slice images are repeatedly transmitted a plurality of times, and
wherein a resolution of the first slice image is lower than a resolution of the second slice image by skipping transmission of a number of pixels of the first slice image.