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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2015
Kohji Sakai, Tokyo, JP;
Kohji Sakai, Tokyo, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An object detector is provided including a light emitter including at least a light source having a plurality of light emitting areas disposed along a first direction to emit light, an optical scanner configured to scan the light emitted from the light emitter along a second direction that is different from the first direction, a light receiver configured to receive the light that is scanned by the optical scanner and then is reflected at an object, and a controller configured to divide a detection field into a plurality of subareas in a third direction that is orthogonal to the second direction, where a number of partitions of the detection field is variable.