Acquisition of range images

US4708473A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Dornier GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Walter Metzdorff · Friedrichshafen, DE
• Peter Lux · Hamburg, DE
• Max Eibert · Friedrichshafen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 1, 1985
• Grant date: Nov 24, 1987
• Expiry date: Feb 1, 2005

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01S17/18
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Short light pulses are emitted and images of the reflection from objects are received; the receiving is timed and synchronized to obtain partial images corresponding to reflection from particular ranges; the partial images are then combined in a composite range image.