Optical scanning device, imaging device, and distance measurement device

    公开(公告)号:US11240402B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-01

    申请号:US15869830

    申请日:2018-01-12

    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.

    Abstract: An optical scanning device for displaying or capturing an image is used, the device including: an optical scanning unit configured to scan emitted light while drawing a spiral trajectory, wherein the unit includes: a light guide path configured to guide incident light to output the emitted light from an emission end; and a vibration unit configured to vibrate the emission end; a light emission control unit configured to control light emission of the emitted light; a polar coordinate generation unit configured to generate a radius and a deflection angle relating to the spiral trajectory; a driving signal generation unit configured to generate a driving signal for driving the vibration unit; an angle correction unit configured to perform calculation for correcting an angle based on information from the driving signal generation unit and output an corrected angle; and a coordinate calculation unit configured to calculate coordinates of an image.

    Video device
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11212423B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-28

    申请号:US16627914

    申请日:2018-06-01

    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.

    Abstract: To propose an optical scanning method for a video device including an optical scanning unit in which one end of a light guide path has a protruding beam-shaped structure. The video device includes the optical scanning unit having the light guide path in which light enters from one end and emits from the other end, and a vibration unit configured to apply vibration to the light guide path via a joint unit in a vicinity of the other end of the light guide path; a drive signal generation unit that generates a drive signal for inducing vibration in the vibration unit; and a scanning trajectory control unit which has a function of independently vibrating the light guide path in a first direction substantially perpendicular to an optical axis direction of the light guide path, and in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the optical axis direction of the light guide path and substantially perpendicular to the first direction by the vibration unit, and which generates a first drive signal configured to drive the vibration unit in the first direction and a second drive signal configured to drive the vibration unit in the second direction with any pattern. The scanning trajectory control unit generates the first drive signal and the second drive signal as sine waves having different phases and a substantially same frequency, and sets a modulation amount of an amplitude modulation of a sine wave of the second drive signal to be larger than a modulation amount of an amplitude modulation of a sine wave of the first drive signal.

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