Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Distance measuring device and distance measuring method
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Application No.: US13770180Application Date: 2013-02-19
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Publication No.: US09605944B2Publication Date: 2017-03-28
- Inventor: Yuji Yamanaka , Kensuke Masuda
- Applicant: Yuji Yamanaka , Kensuke Masuda
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
- Current Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2012-038890 20120224; JP2012-241843 20121101
- Main IPC: G01B11/02
- IPC: G01B11/02 ; G01C3/06 ; G02B7/28 ; G02B7/34 ; G02B7/36 ; H04N5/357

Abstract:
Disclosed is a distance measuring device including an imaging lens configured to condense incident light from an object, a lens array configured in such a manner that light having passed through the imaging lens is incident thereon, an imaging element array configured to receive light having passed through the lens array to output image information, and a distance calculating part configured to calculate a distance to the object based on the image information, wherein the lens array includes plural lenses with different numeric apertures.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130222577A1 DISTANCE MEASURING DEVICE AND DISTANCE MEASURING METHOD Public/Granted day:2013-08-29
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