Receiving apparatus for determining a distance from an object, comprising: - a receiver for receiving signals reflected by the object and for generating photo-induced charge carriers, wherein - the receiver comprises a semiconductor structure for detecting photons, - wherein the semiconductor structure is designed for back-side illumination, - wherein the semiconductor structure has a semiconductor substrate with a photosensitive region for generating photo-induced charge carriers, the photosensitive region facing the back side, and a transport region for transporting the charge carriers, the transport region facing the front side, - wherein the photosensitive region and the transport region are spatially separated from one another by a separation layer which has a gap between the photosensitive region and the transport region, wherein the separation layer is designed in particular as a buried layer, - wherein the transport region has an arrangement of at least two adjacent gates (8, 8a, 8b), of which at least one of the gates (8a, 8b) is located in the cover region of the gap, wherein a voltage may be applied to each of the gates (8, 8a, 8b) in order to move charge carriers in the transport region to below the respective gate (8, 8a, 8b), wherein a clock is provided to successively apply a voltage to the gates (8, 8a, 8b) in alternation in order to move the charge carriers to below the respective gate (8, 8a, 8b) and to transport them in this way along the transport region, wherein the clock is designed to move the charge carriers out of the photosensitive region in temporally specified intervals into the transport region and to transport them further from there along the transport region in order to convert a temporal resolution into a spatial resolution, wherein the transport region is designed as a conveyor belt structure of a CCD, with the result that the voltage is applied to the adjacent gates so that the charge carriers located in the regions are attracted or repulsed in order to move the charge carriers from gate to gate, wherein the transport region comprises at the end of the transport path a readout apparatus for determining quantities of charge carriers in the order in which the quantities of charge carriers reach the readout apparatus via the gates, and an evaluation device is provided, which is designed to determine from the (resulting) temporal profile of the determined quantities of charge carriers a maximum in the temporal intensity profile of the reflected signal. - a receiver for receiving signals reflected by the object and for generating photo-induced charge carriers, wherein - the receiver comprises a semiconductor structure for detecting photons, - wherein the semiconductor structure is designed for back-side illumination, - wherein the semiconductor structure has a semiconductor substrate with a photosensitive region for generating photo-induced charge carriers, the photosensitive region facing the back side, and a transport region for transporting the charge carriers, the transport region facing the front side, - wherein the photosensitive region and the transport region are spatially separated from one another by a separation layer which has a gap between the photosensitive region and the transport region, wherein the separation layer is designed in particular as a buried layer, - wherein the transport region has an arrangement of at least two adjacent gates (8, 8a, 8b), of which at least one of the gates (8a, 8b) is located in the cover region of the gap, wherein a voltage may be applied to each of the gates (8, 8a, 8b) in order to move charge carriers in the transport region to below the respective gate (8, 8a, 8b), wherein a clock is provided to successively apply a voltage to the gates (8, 8a, 8b) in alternation in order to move the charge carriers to below the respective gate (8, 8a, 8b) and to transport them in this way along the transport region, wherein the clock is designed to move the charge carriers out of the photosensitive region in temporally specified intervals into the transport region and to transport them further from there along the transport region in order to convert a temporal resolution into a spatial resolution, wherein the transport region is designed as a conveyor belt structure of a CCD, with the result that the voltage is applied to the adjacent gates so that the charge carriers located in the regions are attracted or repulsed in order to move the charge carriers from gate to gate, wherein the transport region comprises at the end of the transport path a readout apparatus for determining quantities of charge carriers in the order in which the quantities of charge carriers reach the readout apparatus via the gates, and an evaluation device is provided, which is designed to determine from the (resulting) temporal profile of the determined quantities of charge carriers a maximum in the temporal intensity profile of the reflected signal.