Electronics Weekly

Optical time-of-flight sensor covers 48 x 32 pixels and 1cm to 11m

Osram has created an optical time-of-flight sensor with a 48 x 32 pixel receiving array that builds up a 1,536 point depth map as wide as 80° and at ranges from 10mm to 11m. “It is designed to detect ...
New Electronics

Next-generation multizone time-of-flight sensor boosts ranging performance and power saving

STMicroelectronics has launched the VL53L8CX, its latest-generation 8x8 multizone time-of-flight (ToF) ranging sensor, that can deliver a range of improvements including greater ambient-light immunity ...
Electronics Weekly

Tiny industrial time-of-flight distance sensor works up to 1m

STMicroelectronics has created a time-of-flight distance sensor for industrial use. VL53L4ED works over -40 to +105°C and in high ambient light, and provides “provides distance measurement to objects ...
Electronic Design

Indirect ToF Sensor Demo Creates Depth Maps Up to Six Meters

onsemi’s indirect time-of-flight (iToF) demo at embedded world showed how image sensors can be used to create valuable depth maps extending to six meters. Check out more of our embedded world 2023 ...
Hackaday

Reconstructing 3D Objects With A Tiny Distance Sensor

There are a whole bunch of different ways to create 3D scans of objects these days. Researchers at the [UW Graphics Lab] have demonstrated how to use a small, cheap time-of-flight sensor to generate ...
Electronic Design

ToF Sensors for PC Privacy Confirm Even AI Needs Analog Sensors

The various ways your PC-screen “privacy” can be compromised. How a sensitive time-of-flight (ToF) transducer can be a critical privacy (and power-saving) building block. The many circumstances for ...