Valeo Schalter Und Sensoren Gmbh

Espros Photonics Ag

Jan Simon

Thomas Schuler

Peter Horvath

Beat De Coi

Lin Lin

Martin Popp

Daniel Stricker-Shaver

Felix Mueller

Heiko Hofmann

Bernd Bertschinger

Felix Müller

An emitting device () for a scanning optical detection system of a vehicle for monitoring at least one monitoring region () for objects is described, having at least one light source () for generating at least one optical emission signal () and having at least one diffraction unit (), which has a diffractive effect on the at least one emission signal (), for controlling at least one beam direction () of the at least one emission signal (). At least one diffraction unit () which is settable to set the beam directions () associated with the respective signal paths (), is arranged in at least two different signal paths () of one emission signal or various emission signals (). At least one beam alignment unit () is arranged in the respective signal paths () after the at least one diffraction unit () to align the set beam directions () in the at least one monitoring region () while maintaining at least one angle offset between the set beam directions () generated before the at least one beam alignment unit () or to generate at least one angle offset between the set beam directions.

Emitting device for a scanning optical detection system of a vehicle, detection system, driver assistance system, and method for optically scanning a monitoring region

The invention relates to a detection device () for a motor vehicle () for detecting a distance (x) of an object (O) in a surrounding region () of the motor vehicle () from the motor vehicle (), comprising an emitting unit (), which is designed to emit a light beam () and to scan the surrounding region () by orienting the light beam () along predetermined emission angles (), and comprising a receiving unit () having at least two receiving elements (), which are designed to receive a part () of the light beam () reflected on the object (O), to detect the distance (x) on the basis of a duration between the emission of the light beam () and the reception of the reflected part () of the light beam (), and to detect a reception angle (), at which the reflected part () of the light beam () from the surrounding region () is incident on the receiving unit (), wherein the receiving unit () is designed to detect a deviation () between the emission angle () of the light beam () and the reception angle () of the reflected part () of the light beam () corresponding to the emission angle (). The invention additionally relates to a driver assistance system (), a motor vehicle (), and a method for detecting a distance (x) of an object (O) in a surrounding region () of a motor vehicle ().

Detection device for a motor vehicle, driver assistance system, motor vehicle, and method

A flexibly usable optoelectronic sensor device for detecting an object, comprising a receiving device for receiving light backscattered after the scattering of an emitted light beam at the object, wherein the receiving device has an array of at least two receiving elements for detecting radiation and a receiving optical unit for imaging the received radiation on the array; the array is divisible and/or divided into at least two array regions, wherein the at least two array regions correspond in each case to scatterings at objects at different distances from the monitoring region and/or different brightnesses of the received radiation, and the receiving elements respectively arranged in different array regions are settable and/or set to detect with mutually different light sensitivities.

Optoelectronic sensor device and method for controlling same

In order to measure distances precisely, a receiver device for determining a distance from an object is proposed, comprising: a receiver having a semiconductor structure with a photosensitive region for generating photo-induced charge carriers, which region faces the rear side, and having a transportation region, which faces the front side, wherein the photosensitive region and the transportation region are spatially separated from one another by a separation layer which has a passage between the photosensitive region and the transportation region, wherein the transportation region has an arrangement of at least two gates lying one next to the other, at least one of the gates thereof being located in the overlapping region of the passage.

Receiver device, sensor device and method for determining distances

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Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany

Jan Simon