Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Range imaging apparatus and range imaging method
-
Application No.: US15207365Application Date: 2016-07-11
-
Publication No.: US10310084B2Publication Date: 2019-06-04
- Inventor: Yoshihiko Murai , Shinji Yamamoto
- Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- Priority: JP2014-004479 20140114
- Main IPC: G01S17/08
- IPC: G01S17/08 ; G01S17/10 ; G01S17/89 ; G01S7/486 ; G01C3/08

Abstract:
A range imaging apparatus includes a light illuminator that emits signal light from a light source toward a subject; a light receiver that receives light reflecting off the subject; a range image generator that calculates a distance value to the subject based on a time difference between emission and light reception, and generates a range image; a distance value distribution analyzer that calculates a distribution characteristic of the distance value calculated by the range image generator; an illumination controller that adjusts output of the light illuminator; an exposure controller that adjusts exposure by the light receiver; and a signal adjuster that adjusts the illumination controller and the exposure controller based on the distribution characteristic. The signal adjuster adjusts at least one of the illumination controller and the exposure controller for the second signal light based on the distribution characteristic obtained through emission and light reception of the first signal light.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160320486A1 RANGE IMAGING APPARATUS AND RANGE IMAGING METHOD Public/Granted day:2016-11-03
Information query