- Patent Title: Optical sensor for a directivity characteristic calculation of received light on the basis of a deviation of a detected intensity distribution from a referenced intensity distribution
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Application No.: US16087671Application Date: 2017-05-22
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Publication No.: US10663343B2Publication Date: 2020-05-26
- Inventor: Takamitsu Okura
- Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Kariya
- Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kariya
- Agency: Posz Law Group, PLC
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@5d366741
- International Application: PCT/JP2017/018959 WO 20170522
- International Announcement: WO2018/003343 WO 20180104
- Main IPC: G01J1/42
- IPC: G01J1/42 ; G01J1/06 ; G01J1/02 ; H01L31/0216 ; H01L31/167

Abstract:
A detection unit includes multiple detection elements, which are configured to output intensities of received light as detection signals, and a light shielding portion, which is configured to regulate an incident angle of light with respect to the detection elements. The storage unit is configured to store a reference distribution indicating a distribution of intensity of light detected with the detection units caused by irradiation of reference light having a reference directivity characteristic on the detection unit. The calculation unit is configured to input the detection signals from the detection elements, to calculate the detection distribution of the intensity of received light, to input the reference distribution from the storage unit, to calculate a deviation of the detection distribution from the reference distribution, and to calculate a directivity characteristic of received light on the basis of the deviation.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190101441A1 OPTICAL SENSOR Public/Granted day:2019-04-04
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