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In order to reduce timing discrimination error and achieve high ranging accuracy, gray-value distance correction and temperature correction are proposed, and are realized with a field programmable gate array (FPGA) in a real-time application. The ranging performances\u2014such as the maximum ranging distance, the range standard deviation, and the ranging accuracy\u2014are theoretically calculated and experimentally studied. By means of these proposed correction methods, the verification experimental results show that the achievable effective ranging distance can be up to 8.08 m with a ranging accuracy of less than \u00b111 mm. 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