As if you didn’t have enough phone specs to consider when choosing a new phone, here comes another one: Smartphone cameras are now being augmented with what’s called a time-of-flight or TOF sensor, as ...

Every robotics project out there, it seems, needs a way to detect if it’s smashing into a wall repeatedly, acting like the brainless automaton it actually is. The Roomba has wall sensors, just about ...

Rise in utilization of drones and robots across various end-use industries for accurate and real-time spatial data is fueling the time of flight sensor market. Functional ability of indirect ...

Time-of-flight sensors, which typically use infrared lasers to detect depth, have been used in drones, automobiles, and gaming accessories.

TDK Corporation today announced the immediate availability of the Chirp SmartSonic™ platform family of ultrasonic sensor time-of-flight solutions. The SmartSonic platform is currently available ...

Smartphones are starting to see 3D Time of Flight (ToF) sensors being incorporated into smartphones and there's a lot of hype around them. Here's how they work and how they could make smartphone ...

If you are blind or your vision is impaired, moving around in a new space can be a harrowing experience. A cane helps, but only samples one point at a time, and can’t help that much above a certain ...

Time of flight Figure 1 Pulse-echo measurement cycle (Image courtesy of Reference 1) Figure 1 shows a pulse-echo measurement cycle which begins with the TX burst signal, in this example it is a 200 ...

Combined with the use of visible or infrared LEDs to perform time-of-flight measurements, Leddar technology provides continuous, rapid and accurate detection and ranging, without any moving parts.

We already see Time of Flight camera or TOF camera on many flagship-level smartphones from Samsung, Huawei, LG and others. Some call them DepthVision or 3D sensor. Here is how they work.