Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Distance measurement device
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Application No.: US16012860Application Date: 2018-06-20
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Publication No.: US10983212B2Publication Date: 2021-04-20
- Inventor: Masato Takemoto , Shinzo Koyama , Motonori Ishii , Shigeru Saitou
- 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: JP2016-016691 20160129
- Main IPC: G01S17/00
- IPC: G01S17/00 ; G01S17/10 ; G01S7/484 ; G01S7/487 ; G01S7/4865

Abstract:
A distance measurement device includes: a pulse light emitter that emits pulse light to a measurement target; an optical sensor that receives reflected light which is the pulse light reflected by the measurement target; and a controller that controls a light emission timing of the pulse light emitted by the pulse light emitter, and determines a distance to the measurement target, from a light reception timing of the reflected light detected by the optical sensor. The controller sets the light emission timing in each of N periods (N being a natural number less than K) selected randomly from continuous K periods (K being a natural number greater than or equal to 2) to a timing that is delayed by a random first time from a start time of the period.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180299553A1 DISTANCE MEASUREMENT DEVICE Public/Granted day:2018-10-18
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