Panasonic: New TOF / Long-distance image sensor : In-vehicle distance measurement, wide area monitoring
Panasonic:
Panasonic Corporation has developed a time-of-flight (TOF) [2] range image sensor using avalanche photodiode (APD [1]) pixels.
TOF / long range image sensor:
Industrial Solutions Company / Sensor can acquire “high-precision three-dimensional information adjusted to the position of an object 250 m away from near”
This sensor can be deployed in various fields such as in-vehicle distance measurement and wide area monitoring.
【effect】
New TOF range image sensor developed this time.
Utilizing APD pixels (June 2018 / announced by Toshiba) for TOF range image sensor technology,
The electron multiplying unit and the electron storage unit are cascaded to reduce the area of APD pixels,
World’s highest 1 million pixel integration * 1.
It also succeeded in achieving high ranging accuracy, which was difficult with ordinary TOF sensors and LiDAR.
This makes it possible to accurately detect the overlap of people and objects at a distance.
Panasonic Newsroom Japan
https://news.panasonic.com/jp/press/data/2020/02/jn200218-1/jn200218-1.html