Television – Camera – system and detail – Optics
Reexamination Certificate
2006-10-03
2006-10-03
Ometz, David (Department: 2622)
Television
Camera, system and detail
Optics
C348S207990, C250S493100, C396S109000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07116371
ABSTRACT:
A three-dimensional image capturing device comprises a plurality of laser devices, and an imaging device, such as a CCD, having a plurality of photo-diodes. Each of the laser devices radiates a pulse modulated laser beam so as to detect distance information or data relating to a topography of a measurement subject. The laser beam is radiated onto the measurement subject and a reflected light beam is sensed by the CCD. Signal charge corresponding to a distance from the image capturing device to the measurement subject is accumulated in each of the photo-diodes, and thus the above distance information is sensed. Each laser beam, respectively radiated from each of the laser devices, shares illuminating area at the distance of the measurement subject, so that radiant energy of each laser beam can be reduced by sharing a single distance measurement operation among the plurality of laser devices.
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Kakiuchi Shinichi
Seo Shuzo
Tani Nobuhiro
Greenblum & Bernstein P.L.C.
Ometz David
PENTAX Corporation
Tran Nhan T.
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