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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:
Aug. 08, 1989
Filed:
Oct. 05, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Richard Q Schmidt, Huntington, NY (US);
Assignee:
Robotic Vision Systems, Inc., Hauppauge, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C / ; G01B / ; H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
356-5 ; 356152 ; 356376 ; 250332 ; 250334 ; 250578 ; 358 96 ; 358212 ;
Abstract
An arrangement for gating receivers of electro-magnetic energy where optical gating means are not available or not as advantageous as gating the detector array outputs. Appropriate passive and active discharge paths for the detecting elements are provided. Path isolation means are provided for interconnecting detector and memory elements. The gated receivers are applied to obtaining 3-D surface measurements based on the time of flight of a transmitted energy pulse.