Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Time-of-flight distance measuring device and method for detecting multipath error
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Application No.: US16075847Application Date: 2016-02-08
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Publication No.: US11307296B2Publication Date: 2022-04-19
- Inventor: Toshiaki Nagai , Martin Popp , Cengiz Tugsav Kupcu
- Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION , ESPROS PHOTONICS AG
- Applicant Address: JP Kariya; CH Sargans
- Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION,ESPROS PHOTONICS AG
- Current Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION,ESPROS PHOTONICS AG
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kariya; CH Sargans
- Agency: Maschoff Brennan
- International Application: PCT/JP2016/000640 WO 20160208
- International Announcement: WO2017/138033 WO 20170817
- Main IPC: G01S7/497
- IPC: G01S7/497 ; G01S17/36 ; G01S7/481 ; G01S7/4911 ; G01S17/894 ; G01S17/931

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a time-of-flight distance measuring device. The light source (24) includes a plurality of emitting portions (70, 72), each of which illuminates a respective one of the sub-regions (R1, R2). The light receiver (26) includes a plurality of receiving portions (74, 76) corresponding to respective ones of the emitting portions (70, 72). The first controller (28) controls (i) a first emitting portion (70) to emit the emitted light including an Nth-order harmonic component of a fundamental frequency and (ii) a second emitting portion (72) to emit the emitted light including an Mth-order harmonic component. The second controller (30) controls a particular receiving portion (74) corresponding to the first emitting portion (70) to be sensible to the Nth-order Mth-order harmonic components. The multipath detector (82) detects occurrence of the multipath error when the particular receiving portion (74) senses both the Nth-order and Mth-order components.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190056482A1 TIME-OF-FLIGHT DISTANCE MEASURING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING MULTIPATH ERROR Public/Granted day:2019-02-21
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