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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7834985 | Surface profile measurement An imaging system has a transmission system (2) for transmitting a modulated optical signal and a reception system (3) for receiving a received optical signal which is a reflected and delayed version of the transmitted signal. The reception system incl... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7800738 | Imaging device for recording depth The invention relates to a device for determining the distance of an object in local resolution mode, using a frequency-shifted feedback radiation source for irradiating the object with radiation that can be used to determine distance and using a position-sensitive ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7800739 | Distance measuring method and distance measuring element for detecting the spatial dimension of a target A distance measuring method for detecting the spatial dimension of at least one target by at least one emission of a multiplicity of light pulses, in particular laser light, towards the target, detecting the light pulse scattered back by the target by means of a mul... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7791714 | Device and method for recording distance-measuring images A recording device for distance images becomes multi-target-enabled by means of the arrival of light pulses reflected at object regions at different distances being temporally resolved. This is done using extrema of the gradient of a correlation function between the... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7787105 | Taking distance images A system and method for the taking of a large number of distance images having distance picture elements. Electromagnetic radiation is transmitted in the form of transmission pulses at objects, and reflected echo pulses are detected. Measurements are made by determi... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7733464 | Vehicle mounted night vision imaging system and method A vehicle mounted imaging system and method, enabling selective imaging of objects in a low-visibility environment. The system includes a light source providing non-visible light pulses and a camera having an image intensifier enabled to gate selected received image... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7684019 | Method and device for measuring distance The invention relates to a frequency-shifted feedback radiation source, equipped with an element for increasing the beat intensity of the emission frequency component. ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7675610 | Photon counting, chirped AM LADAR system and related methods Ladar systems and methods are provided. One embodiment is a ladar system comprising: a chirp generator for generating a chirped waveform; a laser for transmitting a light signal toward a target, the light signal being modulated by the chirped waveform; and a photon-... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7667824 | Range gated shearography systems and related methods A range-gated shearography system and related methods. Implementations of range-gated shearography systems may include a laser light source, at least one imaging detector coupled to the laser light source, a shearing interferometer coupled to the at least one imagin... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7554652 | Light-integrating rangefinding device and method A rangefinding device and a method for determining the range of an object from a rangefinding device are provided. A train of light pulses each having an emission time and a pulse duration is generated. The pulse duration is set to twice the round-trip time to a max... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7505121 | Multi-beam optical range sensor and self-propelled cleaner and air-conditioner equipped with the same In this multi-beam optical range sensor, since the diffraction grating splits output light of the light-emitting element into a plurality of beams, a plurality of beams can be outputted from the diffraction grating even with one light-emitting element. Therefore, ac... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7382441 | Object detecting apparatus having light radiation power regulating function An object detecting apparatus for a vehicle has a light radiation unit and a light receiver unit disposed in a case for detecting an object or a distance to the object. When a vehicle is at a stop, the apparatus detects an output power of a laser light radiated from... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379016 | Carrier phase detection system for radar sensors A pulse detection system for expanded time radar, laser and TDR sensors detects specific cycles within bursts of cycles. A sensor transmits and receives short bursts of RF cycles. A transmit pulse detector triggers on a selected cycle of the detected transmit burst ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7372551 | Systems and methods for long-range, high-resolution laser radar range detection Provided are systems and methods for long-range, high-resolution, laser radar range detection. In one embodiment such a system includes an optical pulse modifier configured generated a stretched optical pulse and an optical amplifier configured to increase an optica... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7359039 | Device for precise distance measurement An electronic method for distance measurement based on pulsed laser time-of-flight is provided. The method comprises generating a wave of outgoing radiant energy pulses having a substantially stable period for providing a wave of pulses reflected from a target objec... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7339727 | Method and system for diffractive beam combining using DOE combiner with passive phase control A system and method for combining plural low power light beams into a coherent high power light beam. Optical amplifiers transmit a plurality of light beams propagating at a common wavelength through an array of optical fiber emitters. Each constituent beam is emitt... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7327307 | Radar system with adaptive waveform processing and methods for adaptively controlling the shape of a radar ambiguity function An adaptive waveform radar system transmits a selected waveform of a family of related waveforms and either phase shifts or bit shifts the radar return signal for correlating with the other waveforms of the family. In some embodiments, phase shifting may be performe... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7312856 | Programmable pulse capture device with automatic gain control The invention an optical system and a method for automatically controlling the gain of a receiver in an optical system. The optical system includes an optical receiver, a pulse capture unit, and an automatic gain control. The pulse capture unit includes a capture un... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7280069 | Range-finding radar apparatus with high-resolution pulse-width calculation unit A radar apparatus includes a modulation signal generating unit that generates a modulation signal based on an internal clock with a cycle Tc and generates a trigger signal in synchronization with the modulation signal, a carrier wave generating unit that generates a... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7274436 | Distance measuring device for a vehicle A distance measuring device for a vehicle emits electromagnetic waves forward for a scan both in horizontal and vertical directions. It is judged from received light whether or not the distance to a detected object is within a specified preset range. If the distance... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274438 | Device for monitoring spatial areas A monitoring device (1) for spatial areas (2) includes emitters (3) that emit radiation pulses that are reflected by objects located within the spatial areas (2) toward receivers (4). The receivers (4) are connected to a run... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7248343 | Amplitude-weighted spatial coherent processing for LADAR system A laser radar (LADAR) system is provided with amplitude-weighted spatial coherent processing. An amplitude-weighted sum of time domain signals arising from several detectors within a detector array is formed and used for range doppler processing. Weighting coefficie... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7242462 | Speed detection methods and devices A speed detection method. A range finder acquires a specific number of distance measurement samples of an object during a period of time. A new unit of measurement larger than respective movement distances of the object in a first period and a second period is acqui... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7236234 | Optical sensor arrangement An optical sensor arrangement is protected against interfering environmental influences by a transparent cover. To avoid interfering reflections, a baffle with lamellae oriented in the direction of the emitted and reflected light is arranged between the cover and th... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7221438 | Coherent laser radar apparatus A coherent laser radar device is described which comprises a laser source (11), and two or more transceivers (84) are optically connected to the laser source by optical fiber cables (42, 48, 82) that are routed through an optical routing means (... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7212278 | Method and device for recording a three-dimensional distance-measuring image The invention relates to methods and devices for recording three-dimensional distance-measuring images of an object surface by measuring light propagation time using a short-term integrated photodetector. For starting a light-induced pulse on the transmission side, ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7206063 | Optical range finder with directed attention An optical range finder for determining the distance comprises a focusing optical member that focuses emitted electromagnetic radiation upon a micro-mirror array. A processor controls the micro-mirror array to direct the focused electromagnetic radiation into a defi... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7199867 | Anti-interference speed detection methods and detectors thereof A speed detection method is implemented in a speed detector comprising a range finder. First, a specific number of distance measurement samples of an object are acquired during a period of time utilizing the range finder. The distance measurement samples are convert... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7196778 | Circuitry and method for measuring time interval with ring oscillator A circuitry for measuring a time interval with ring oscillator has a ring oscillator formed by a plurality of delay switching units, a counter and an encoder. Wherein, the ring oscillator generates a plurality of oscillating signals when receives a pulse signal used... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7181414 | Electronic toll collection system for toll road An ETC (electronic toll collection) system includes an antenna having a predetermined directivity for providing a limited radio-communication service zone. A vehicle sensor operates for detecting a vehicle which reaches a predetermined position in the limited radio-... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7095488 | System for profiling objects on terrain forward and below an aircraft utilizing a cross-track laser altimeter A forward looking cross-track laser altimeter comprises: a first configuration of optical elements for guiding pulsed laser beams along a first optical path; a mirror element coupled to a scanner and disposed in the first optical path, the scanner operative to oscil... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095489 | Pulse shifted array A laser-radar receiver comprising an array of optical fibers, wherein the opposite ends of the optical fibers are connected to at least one electromagnetic radiation detector, each of the optical fibers having differing physical characteristics which result in known... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7067812 | Multispectral selective reflective Lidar A multispectral selective reflection Lidar system generates alternating pulses of at least two wavelengths and senses returns for determining the presence of a predetermined material absorbing and reradiating one wavelength as selective reflections, but not the othe... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7064810 | Optical range finder with directed attention An optical range finder for determining the distance comprises a focusing optical member that focuses emitted electromagnetic radiation upon a micro-mirror array. A processor controls the micro-mirror array to direct the focused electromagnetic radiation into a defi... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7061620 | Method and apparatus for three-dimensional object detection A fundamental concept of the invention consists thus in the fact that temporally variable reference and object light bundles are generated for object detection, the bundles are superimposed at a light receiver and detected beam by beam and the penetration of the obj... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7034950 | Laser grid for measuring distance The laser grid (1) permits a single-sided installation in order to record a person or object in the monitoring area. The grid operates using punctiform sensor units (3), each including at least one laser diode and two photosensitive pixels. The sensor ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7027534 | Extracting fine-tuned estimates from correlation functions evaluated at a limited number of values Techniques are provided for fine-tuning estimates of a delay value for a sampled signal. One aspect of the invention is to perform, for the sampled signal, coarse-grained calculations of the In Phase and Quadrature (I and Q) correlation integrals at a limited number... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7006203 | Video guidance sensor system with integrated rangefinding A video guidance sensor system for use, e.g., in automated docking of a chase vehicle with a target vehicle. The system includes an integrated rangefinder sub-system that uses time of flight measurements to measure range. The rangefinder sub-system includes a pair o... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6993255 | Method and apparatus for providing adaptive illumination An illumination system (20, 72, 110, 142) for illuminating a scene comprising: an illuminator (24, 74, 116) having a plurality of substantially contiguous independently controllable light (26, 76) providing regions each of which provides light t... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6975406 | Glitch filter for distance measuring interferometry A method and apparatus used to reduce glitches in measurements made by an accumulation of phase changes over a range greater than 2π. Embodiments of the invention feature the use of a glitch filter that receives a phase input indicating a position value. The glitch... | 12/13/2005 |
