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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:
Jun. 10, 1986
Filed:
Nov. 01, 1984
Applicant:
Inventor:
Paul R Haugen, Bloomington, MN (US);
Assignee:
Honeywell Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ; G01C / ; G01B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
350-371 ; 356-1 ; 356376 ;
Abstract
This invention is to a three dimensional active vision sensor. This invention uses a multifacet holographic scanner to move a laser spot across an object at high speed in a raster pattern and a digital position detector to give a highly accurate, low noise, digital representation of the angle to the laser spot on the object. The integration of these two devices is a unique solution for providing range (3-dimensional data) of an arbitrary object in real time.