Patent ID: 11971505
Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS (GRENOBLE 2) SAS
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:
incrementing, by a second counter, a second count in response to receiving a second-counter increment command;
decrementing, by the second counter, the second count in response to receiving a second-counter decrement command;
transmitting, by the gate circuit in a third state, the second-counter increment command to the second counter in response to receiving the photon-detection alert;
transmitting, by the gate circuit in a fourth state, the second-counter decrement command to the second counter in response to receiving the photon-detection alert;
setting the gate circuit to the third state by the control signal after a passage of a third-state delay determined in accordance with the second count and the first count, the third-state delay measured from the time of the optical-emission time; and
setting the gate circuit to the fourth state by the control signal after a passage of a fourth-state delay determined in accordance with the second count and the first count, the fourth-state delay measured from the time of the optical-emission time.