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Optoelectronic sensor device and method for controlling same

US11175403B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignees

ESPROS Photonics AG · CH
VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN GMBH · DE

Inventors

Jan Simon · Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE
Thomas Schuler · Wiernsheim, DE
Peter Horvath · Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE
Beat De Coi · Sargans, CH

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 13, 2018
Grant date	Nov 16, 2021
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 13, 2038

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01S17/894
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A flexibly usable optoelectronic sensor device for detecting an object, comprising a receiving device for receiving light backscattered after the scattering of an emitted light beam at the object, wherein the receiving device has an array of at least two receiving elements for detecting radiation and a receiving optical unit for imaging the received radiation on the array; the array is divisible and/or divided into at least two array regions, wherein the at least two array regions correspond in each case to scatterings at objects at different distances from the monitoring region and/or different brightnesses of the received radiation, and the receiving elements respectively arranged in different array regions are settable and/or set to detect with mutually different light sensitivities.

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