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Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 1998

Filed:

Dec. 28, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:

Jun Hasegawa, Miyagi, JP;

Eiji Watanabe, Miyagi, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
356-314 ; 396128 ;
Abstract

A range finder having: first and second lenses for focussing an image of a subject via spatially different optical paths; first and second photosensor arrays disposed generally parallel and each having a plurality of pixels, an image being focussed on the first and second photosensor arrays by the first lens; a third photosensor array having a plurality of pixels, an image being focussed on the third photosensor array by the second lens, and a line extending through pixels of the first photosensor array and pixels of the third photosensor array having a slant from a line extending through the optical axes of the first and second lenses; a phase difference detecting unit for detecting a phase difference between images focussed by the first and second lenses and correcting an error to be caused by the slant in accordance with images focussed on the first to third photosensor arrays; and a distance calculating unit for calculating distance data to the subject in accordance with the phase difference detected by the phase difference detecting unit.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Hasegawa, Jun. (1998). Range finder with compensation of rotation about z-axis (U.S. Patent No. 5715043). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/5715043

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