Astrodesign, Inc.

Nobuyuki Nishizawa

Shigeaki Suzuki

Toshiharu Takesue

Shigeto Takeda

Tatsuho Arima

An optical distance measuring apparatus includes: a scanning element scanning a coherent irradiation light from a light source and sending it to an object under measurement; a photo detector receiving the irradiation light modulated by being passed through the object under measurement in accordance with the scanning, and performing photoelectric conversion on the irradiation light; and a measuring unit obtaining phase information of the object under measurement based on a signal photoelectrically converted by the photo detector and a signal to be a reference for the scanning by the scanning element, and obtaining a measurement value regarding the object under measurement based on the phase information.

Optical distance measuring apparatus

A spatial frequency reproducing apparatus includes a light source, a first means for modulating a light emitted from the light source into two lights having different frequencies and separately irradiated adjacently, a second means for two-dimensionally scanning the two lights, a third means for irradiating an object under measurement with the two lights, a fourth means for receiving and converting into an electrical signal at least two or more divided lights from the object under measurement with a boundary line being interposed therebetween in a direction substantially perpendicular to the direction separating the two lights, a fifth means for amplifying respective photoelectrically converted electrical signals while varying a degree of amplification according to frequencies thereof and generating a difference signal or a summation signal of the amplified signals, and a sixth means for obtaining a phase difference or an intensity difference of these signals to obtain a measurement value.

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Tokyo, Japan

Nobuyuki Nishizawa