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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2016
Alps Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Tatsumaro Yamashita, Miyagi-ken, JP;
Alps Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An object detection device includes a light source, an irradiation optical system that converts emitted light from the light source to measurement light having a predetermined pattern and emits the measurement light to a reference surface, and a light reception element that images the reference surface, and includes an imaging member that reads an image captured by the light reception element for each of a plurality of lines extending in a horizontal direction and arranged at predetermined intervals, and a detection unit that detects an object to be measured entering between a pattern forming unit and the reference surface based on image data from the imaging element, in which the pattern includes a plurality of division patterns arranged in the horizontal direction to correspond to the lines in the reference surface.