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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2005
Sammy W. Henderson, Boulder, CO (US);
Paul J. M. Suni, Berthoud, CO (US);
Sammy W. Henderson, Boulder, CO (US);
Paul J. M. Suni, Berthoud, CO (US);
Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies, Inc., Louisville, CO (US);
Abstract
A system for observing a field of view including a light transmitter and a light detector. A path is defined between the transmitter and the detector. The light transmitter generates substantially coherent light onto a transmit portion of a light path and the light detector is positioned in a receive portion of the light path defined by reflected light from some of the target locations. The system includes a component for configuring at least a portion of the light path such that a subset of the plurality of potential target points are included in the light path.