How to Use time-of-flight in a Sentence

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• The breakthrough came with a time-of-flight camera, which allowed the flying umbrella to track and follow a user directly, even in the dark.
  — New Atlas, 31 Jan. 2026
• There are high quality speakers, a display, and time-of-flight sensors for additional object sensing.
  — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 11 Jan. 2018
• Such time-of-flight measurement requires hours of scanning time to produce a resolution measured in centimeters.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Jan. 2020
• This is accompanied by the dual-lens configuration, which enables real-time depth perception without requiring structured light or time-of-flight sensors.
  — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
• Obstacle Avoidance systems usually feature six vision sensors (two at the front, rear and bottom) and a downward infrared time-of-flight (ToF) sensor.
  — James Abbott, Space.com, 24 Feb. 2026
• Other gesture recognition technologies exist, such as cameras and time-of-flight sensors, but these are susceptible to lighting conditions and, in a smartwatch scenario, could be easily blocked by your sleeve.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 May 2019
• Their three robotic rovers, outfitted with an array of cutting-edge imagery gear including time-of-flight cameras, helped the team generate an atlas of 3D maps of the site - from its skylight to its inner passageways.
  — Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
• Not a Wheelchair—an EV EV1 combines two lidar units, two cameras, 10 time-of-flight depth sensors, and six ultrasonic sensors.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2026
• An alternative to time-of-flight detection How does our planar lens architecture address key remaining challenges of optical beam steering for lidar applications?
  — Josué J. López, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Dec. 2020
• The researchers examined its composition and formation using techniques including X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry and transmission electron microscopy.
  — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2026