Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Spatial information detection device and spatial information detection system using the same
- Patent Title (中): 空间信息检测装置和空间信息检测系统使用相同
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Application No.: US11919746Application Date: 2006-05-01
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Publication No.: US07643131B2Publication Date: 2010-01-05
- Inventor: Fumi Tsunesada , Yusuke Hashimoto , Fumikazu Kurihara , Yuji Takada , Atsushi Hironaka
- Applicant: Fumi Tsunesada , Yusuke Hashimoto , Fumikazu Kurihara , Yuji Takada , Atsushi Hironaka
- Applicant Address: JP Kadoma-shi
- Assignee: Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kadoma-shi
- Agency: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP
- Priority: JP2005-134393 20050502
- International Application: PCT/JP2006/309071 WO 20060501
- International Announcement: WO2006/118286 WO 20061109
- Main IPC: G01C3/08
- IPC: G01C3/08

Abstract:
A spatial information detection device is provided, which is capable of, even under the condition that an environmental light having intensity fluctuations exists in a target space, projecting a light intensity-modulated with a predetermined modulation signal from a light emitting source into the target space, receiving light from the target space with a photodetector, and detecting spatial information of the target space from a change between the light projected from the light emitting source and the light received by the photodetector. This device has a smoothing unit configured to integrate, over a predetermined integration period, a fluctuation component in a prescribed phase zone of the modulation signal with respect to an electric charge amount generated by receiving the environmental light in the electric charge amount generated at the photodetector by receiving the light from the target space, thereby smoothing the fluctuation component.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090079955A1 Spatial information detection device and spatial information detection system using the same Public/Granted day:2009-03-26
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