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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:
Feb. 09, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 28, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Clarence C Andressen, Clearwater, FL (US);
Assignee:
Alliant Defense Electronics Systems, Inc., Clearwater, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C / ; G01B / ; G02F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
356-401 ; 3561411 ; 359305 ;
Abstract
A laser radar (LADAR) including an acoustic-optical (AO) laser scanner for deflecting a pulsed laser beam through a plurality of angles, means for diffracting the deflected laser beam from the acoustic-optical laser scanner into a plurality of laser beams and a linear detector array including a plurality of detector elements respectively positioned to receive reflected energy from the respective plurality of laser beams such that a line scan is produced composed of a plurality of pixels.