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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2018
Sick Ag, Waldkirch, DE;
Hartmut Gimpel, Waldkirch, DE;
Roger Buser, Waldkirch, DE;
SICK AG, Waldkirch, DE;
Abstract
An optoelectronic sensor () for detecting an object in a monitored zone () that has at least one light transmitter () for transmitting a plurality of mutually separated transmitted light beams (-); a plurality of light receivers (-) that are each associated with one of the transmitted light beams (-) for generating a received signal from the associated light beam () remitted at the object; and an evaluation unit () that is configured to acquire information on the object at the respective point of incidence of the transmitted light beam (-) from the received signal of the light receiver (-) that is associated with the transmitted light beam (-) and to additionally consider at least one received signal of a light receiver (-) that is not associated with the transmitted light beam (-) on the acquiring of information on the object at the point of incidence of at least one transmitted light beam (-).