Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optical scanning device, imaging device, and distance measurement device
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Application No.: US15869830Application Date: 2018-01-12
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Publication No.: US11240402B2Publication Date: 2022-02-01
- Inventor: Shinsuke Onoe , Toshiteru Nakamura , Kenichiro Yamada , Takahiro Matsuda , Yoshiho Seo
- Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Crowell & Moring LLP
- Priority: JPJP2017-007174 20170119
- Main IPC: H04N3/02
- IPC: H04N3/02 ; H04N3/28 ; G01S17/42 ; G01S17/08 ; G01S7/481 ; G02B6/42

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.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180205854A1 Optical Scanning Device, Imaging Device, and Distance Measurement Device Public/Granted day:2018-07-19
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