[thdrdt]

For me it is a little confusing article, but it sound like Sony now has a chip that can emit infrared and in the same pixel measure the direct time of flight. Am I right?

So props to Sony for making this possible in a, I assume, much smaller chip.

[djrogers]

No, that’s not quite the case. FTA:

——- In EE Times’ interview, Sylvain Hallereau, senior technology and cost analyst at System Plus, explained that iPad Pro 11’s “LiDAR scanner” consists of an emitter — a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) from Lumentum, and a receptor — near infrared (NIR) CMOS image sensor that does direct measurement of time of flight, developed by Sony. —-

So an emitter from Lumentum and a sensor from Sony.