Time-of-flight (ToF) technology enables new applications in multiple markets, resulting in a market boom for time-of-flight CMOS sensors over the last few years. This is mainly driven by the consumer and automotive markets, but also by prosumers — amateurs who purchase equipment with quality or features suitable for professional use. Overall, the technology is being used in industries such as robotics, logistics, construction mapping, and more recently, intelligent transportation systems (ITS).

There are multiple technologies based on the time-of-flight concept. Generally, all of them are synchronized with a light source and estimate the distance by calculating the time taken for the light to travel from the camera to the object and then back again.

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