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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2002
Masahiro Ohishi, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshikatsu Tokuda, Tokyo, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a light-wave rangefinder using a pulse method, which can reduce a measurement error, in which a tuned amplifier converts an electric signal of a light receiving unit into a damped oscillation waveform and thereby an arithmetic processing means can calculate a distance from a measuring position to a reflecting object on the basis of the damped oscillation waveform of the tuned amplifier. An optical noise sampling unit samples an optical noise produced in the rangefinder; an optical-noise storage unit stores sampling data of the optical-noise sampling unit; an arithmetic processing means reduces a measurement error caused by an optical noise on the basis of the sampling data of the optical-noise storage unit; and thereby a distance, a measurement error of which is reduced, can be calculated.