Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Three-dimensional triangulation and time-of-flight based tracking systems and methods
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Application No.: US15194502Application Date: 2016-06-27
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Publication No.: US10324187B2Publication Date: 2019-06-18
- Inventor: Gerard Dirk Smits
- Applicant: Gerard Dirk Smits
- Agency: Lowe Graham Jones PLLC
- Agent John W. Branch
- Main IPC: G01C3/08
- IPC: G01C3/08 ; G01S17/66 ; G01S17/10 ; G01S17/42 ; G01S17/48 ; G01S7/481 ; G01S7/486 ; G01S7/497

Abstract:
A three-dimension position tracking system is presented. The system includes transmitters and receivers. A transmitter scans continuous or pulsed coherent light beams across a target. The receiver detects the reflected beams. The system recursively determines the location of the target, as a function of time, via triangulation and observation of the time-of-flight of the incoming and outgoing beams. The transmitter includes ultra-fast scanning optics to scan the receiver's field-of-view. The receiver includes arrays of ultra-fast photosensitive pixels. The system determines the angles of the incoming beams based on the line-of-sight of the triggered pixels. By observing the incoming angles and correlating timestamps associated with the outgoing and incoming beams, the system accurately, and in near real-time, determines the location of the target. By combining the geometry of the scattered beams, as well as the beams' time-of-flight, ambiguities inherent to triangulation and ambiguities inherent to time-of-flight location methods are resolved.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160306044A1 THREE-DIMENSIONAL TRIANGULATION AND TIME-OF-FLIGHT BASED TRACKING SYSTEMS AND METHODS Public/Granted day:2016-10-20
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