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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 1982
Filed:
Dec. 04, 1980
Applicant:
Inventor:
John C Wittenberger, Littleton, CO (US);
Assignee:
Honeywell Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
250204 ; 354 25 ;
Abstract
Range finding equipment for use with optical systems utilizing a small number of radiation detectors positioned to receive radiation in first and second patterns from a remote object. The sum of the logarithm of the ratio of a first and second detector and the logarithm of the ratio of a third and fourth detector is compared with the difference between the logarithm of the ratio of the first and second detector and the logarithm of the ratio of the third and fourth detector to determine which has the greatest absolute magnitude. The signal of greatest magnitude is selected to operate the range finding circuitry.