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Optical detection and ranging apparatus

US4119379A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateSep 27, 1967
Grant dateOct 10, 1978
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Expiry dateSep 27, 1987

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01S17/88
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Optical detecting and ranging equipment of high information gathering and processing capacity employs a pulsed coherent source illuminating with each pulse a line field of view. An optical receiver monitoring the entire field of view has a scanner that causes reflections received at different times to be recorded at correspondingly different coordinates.

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