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.
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
- Original PDF
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- Filed
- 2010-06-02
- Source
- Google Patents bibliographic record
- Granted
- 2014-03-18
- Inventors
- David S. Hall; Velodyne Acoustics Inc