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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:
Sep. 15, 1992
Filed:
Jun. 18, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Honeywell Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
356350 ;
Abstract
An information retrieval system for extracting information from a pair of substantially coherent electromagnetic waves represented by phase differences therebetween each of which is incident on a photodetector, and having a demodulator which receives the photodetector output signal and which also receives a reference signal. The reference signal is obtained through use of a phase shift detector which receives the photodetector signal to determine certain phase shifts occurring therein and provides this information to a reference signal supply to adjust the phase of its output signal which then serves as the reference signal for the demodulator.