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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2013
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Grand Prairie, TX (US);
Bruno J Evans, Keller, TX (US);
William Dale Cotten, Palestine, TX (US);
Don Alan Larson, McLean, VA (US);
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Grand Prairie, TX (US);
Abstract
An imaging system includes: a transmit side that generates a plurality of switched beam laser signals and scans each of the switched beam laser signals into a respective field of view by two polygon facets simultaneously of a polygonal mirror, the respective fields of view overlapping in at least a portion thereof; and a receive side that receives a plurality of reflections of the laser signals, detects them, and captures them as three-dimensional imagery data. A method includes: generating a plurality of switched beam laser signals from a single laser signal; scanning each of the switched beam laser signals in seriatim into a respective field of view by each of two polygonal facets of a polygonal mirror, the respective fields of view overlapping in at least a portion thereof; receiving reflections of the switched beam laser signals; and generating a set of three-dimensional imagery from the received reflections.