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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:
Oct. 20, 1987
Filed:
Feb. 21, 1984
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C / ; G01C / ; G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
356-1 ; 354403 ; 356222 ; 2502 / ;
Abstract
An input circuit which converts currents produced from a plurality of photo-sensitive elements arranged in a distance measuring apparatus. The input circuit has a switching element series connected to at least one of the photo-sensitive elements. When the switching element is operated, the output current of one of the photo-sensitive elements is supplied to a converting circuit which converts current into a voltage. Only one converting circuit is present. The output of the converting circuit is produced in a time series to a computing circuit. The computing circuit processes the signal thus received and produces a signal corresponding to an object distance.