Optics: measuring and testing – Range or remote distance finding – With photodetection
Patent
1988-04-19
1990-04-10
Buczinski, Stephen C.
Optics: measuring and testing
Range or remote distance finding
With photodetection
342 94, 358 95, 367901, G01C 308, H04N 700
Patent
active
049154982
ABSTRACT:
A sensor for creating images containing range depth information is disclosed. The sensor comprises a gated energy transmitter used to "illuminate" the object to be imaged, a gated integrating imaging energy receiver to produce "raw" images, a processor system to combine the raw images from the receiver to produce a output image, and a timing system to control the gate timing of the transmitter and gate timing of the receiver. In operation, two raw images are created with differing time relationships between the transmitter gating, receiver gating and integrated energy readout. One raw image is a reference image containing no range information while the second image contains range information along with unwanted information such as reflectivity variations. These raw images are processed to produce a final output image in which the unwanted information is mainly cancelled producing an output "range" image. This output image is a one or two dimensional array of data. The position of data in the array is proportional to the angular displacement from the sensor's boresight. The data at each position in the array is proportional to the range from the sensor (or a reference distance from the sensor) to the point on the object being imaged as determined from the data's position in the array.
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