Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Hans-Peter Grassl

Heiner Herbst

Hans-Joerg Pfleiderer

Peter Kleinschmidt

Hans-Jorg Pfleiderer

A two-track convolver has input transducer assemblies at each end of integrated electrodes. Each of the input transducer assemblies is formed of two individual transducers which are connected in series. One of the transducer input assemblies connects to an input signal and the other of the input assemblies connects to a reference signal. Transducers which are diagonally arranged with respect to the two integration electrodes connect to reference potential. For a given input impedance, the system permits a greatest possible chirp duration corresponding to a large length of the individual transducers.

Two-track convolver operating with acoustic waves and with suppression

A dispersive transducer 100 which has non-equidistant distribution of the finger electrodes 6, 7, 16 and 17 according to band-width such that the finger electrodes 16 and 17 of the low frequency portion 11 of the transducer have a width c and spacing d1 (or d2) which are equal to the corresponding portions of the highest frequency part 13 of the transducer such that reflections are substantially reduced or eliminated.

Dispersive interdigital transducer for arrangements operating with

A lens module for use in an opto-electronic range finder double ray deflection for the projection of two images of an object onto two linear image sensors disposed in a single image plane has a prismatic body having a trapezoidal base with a V-shaped notch in a central area of the longer of the parallel trapezoid sides of the base. The surfaces of the notch are substantially parallel to the nearest non-parallel trapezoid side. A projection from the shorter parallel trapezoid side has a pair of light exit ports leading to the respective image sensors and a pair of light inlet ports are disposed at opposite ends of the longer parallel trapezoid side.

Lens module for an opto-electronic range finder

A circuit for sensor controlled distance measurement is disclosed having two linear image sensors which are positioned to receive corresponding lines of two images derived from an object. The sensor signals are subjected to correlation measurements from which the distance of the object is determined. In the case of circuits of this sort, one endeavors to attain as exact and unfalsified a distance measurement as possible. For this purpose, the sensor signals are digitalized in evaluators, then read via transfer transistors into shift registers which undertake relative position displacements of the sensor signals in a longitudinal direction of the image sensors between individual signal cycles, and are subject to a correlation measurement. The circuit distinguishes itself in that the digital evaluation proceeds completely independently of parameters of the shift register and is thus carried out very precisely. Applications include photographic and electronic cameras.

Circuit for the sensor controlled distance measurement

A circuit for sensor-controlled telemetry has two linear image sensors each having a number of opto-electronic sensor elements on which are projected sections of corresponding lines of two separately-obtained images from an object whose range is to be determined and has a single-input evaluator post connected to each sensor element through switching transistors, which evaluators are switchable between two logic states dependent upon whether a voltage generated by accumulated charge in a sensor element is above or below a reference potential. The digitalized signals from each evaluator are serially transmitted through respective associated shift registers to a logic circuit which compares the contents of stages of shift registers for each image sensor for determining coincidence of the digital signals. The number of coincidences indicate the relative position correlation of the images on the image sensors and this number of coincidences is serially transmitted to another shift register to a counter for determination of a maximum correlation and subsequent generation of an operational range-indicating or range-finding signal.

Circuit for sensor-controlled telemetry

A photographic or electronic camera optoelectronic distance measuring system has a lens with two partial aperture diaphragms which create first and second partial bundles of rays. Two linear image sensors are provided together with optical devices for projecting segments of lines corresponding to two images obtained from the object onto the image sensors. An evaluating circuit, in dependence upon varying position displacements of sensor signals obtained from the one image sensor with respect to the sensor signals obtained from the other image sensor, determines a maximum correlation between these and an associated position displacement. A device is provided for deflecting the ray path at least partially into a view finder. Two focusing lens parts are arranged in a region of an eyepiece of the view finder which locate partial aperture diaphragms of the lens by imaging in the plane of the view finder eyepiece. In a path of rays of partial bundles of rays created by the partial aperture diaphragms, and which project images onto the image sensors, deflection elements are provided which separate both paths of rays from one another.

Single reflex camera with an optoelectronic distance meter mounted in

A photographic or electronic camera is disclosed having an optoelectronic distance meter. Linear sensors are provided and by way of partial aperture diaphragms associated with a lens first and second images are created and projectd onto the image sensors. An evaluating circuit, in dependence upon varied position displacements of the sensor signals, determines a maximum correlation between the signals and an associated position displacement with a corresponding electrical value corresponding to distance. A stringing mirror deflects the path of rays either into the view finder or to an image plane for picture taking. The swinging mirror has apertures positioned to permit the first and second bundles of rays to pass therethrough. Deflection elements are attached to the swinging mirror and are positioned to direct the partial bundles of rays passing through the apertures such that the images are projected onto the image sensors.

Single reflex camera with optoelectronic distance meter

A circuit for sensor-controlled telemetry has two linear image sensors each having a number of sensor elements onto which image sensors portions of corresponding lines of two separately obtained images of an object are projected and a number of evaluators post-connected to the sensor elements each being switchable between two states as a function of the amount of charge optionally generated in the sensor elements, each evaluator having two inputs respectively connected through switching transistors to the outputs of two sensor elements for comparing the charges generated thereby. The two sensor elements connected to each comparator may be adjacent to each other or disposed at a small distance from each other. Each evaluator provides a digital output to a shift register for serially transferring the data to a processing circuit which undertakes a maximum correlation of the data received from the evaluators, and transmits the data to a post-connected display or focusing device.

A circuit for sensor-controlled distance measurement with two linear image sensors is disclosed. These sensors are exposed to lines corresponding to two images derived from one object. The sensor signals are subjected to correlation measurements, from which the range of the object is determined. An exposure-measuring circuit determines the optimum integration time of the sensor elements. A comparing sensor element of the exposure-measuring circuit is provided in a strip-shape and co-integrated on the semiconductor member. It is positioned for exposure to an optically generated charge quantity which corresponds to a plurality of sensor elements in at least one of the image sensors. The comparison sensor element is designed as a strip-shaped photodiode arranged next to the sensor element row in at least one of the image sensors. Above a zone of the semiconductor member between the sensor element row and the comparison sensor element a gate separated by a thin insulating layer is provided and which is subjected to a constant voltage.

Circuit provided with an exposure measuring part for sensor-controlled

A circuit for sensor-controlled distance measurement with two linear image sensors is disclosed. These sensors are exposed to lines corresponding to two images derived from one object. The sensor signals are subjected to correlation measurements, from which the range of the object is determined. An exposure-measuring circuit determines the optimum integration time of the sensor elements. In the case of such circuits, one sets as exact a distance measurement as possible. For this purpose, comparing sensor elements of the exposure-measuring circuit, which are provided with a mean value of the exposure of many sensor locations, are designed such that they extend only over a part of the sensor lines. They are arranged in a sequence which runs along the entire sensor line. A separate controlling of the optimum integration time proceeds over individual line portions. A range of application for the invention encompasses photographic and electronic cameras.

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Zorneding, Germany

Hans-Peter Grassl