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patent · US8675181

Color LiDAR scanner

18 March 2014

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This patent is cited by material in the archive, so it is indexed here by number, title and inventor. The archive holds no copy of its text.

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Abstract

A color LiDAR scanner device includes color laser diodes (red, green, blue) and avalanche photodetector diodes (red, green, blue) that illuminate and detect the color light intensity returned from a target. In a preferred version these color laser/detectors are coupled with a single infrared laser/detector that detects the range and infrared light intensity from the same target. The combined range and color intensity information is combined to produce a single colored pixel i...

Provenance

Collection
Cited prior art
Filed
2010-06-02
Source
Google Patents bibliographic record
Granted
2014-03-18
Inventors
David S. Hall; Velodyne Acoustics Inc