Signal processing apparatus used for operations for range finding and scanning rangefinder

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PATENT NO 8831908
APP PUB NO 20110246116A1
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13075668

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A signal processing apparatus includes a differential processing unit to differentiate a reflection signal corresponding to a pulse measurement beam that is periodically scanned in a polarized manner; an arithmetic unit to obtain, with a rising time of a first-order-differential reflection signal as a reference, a barycentric position of the first order differential reflection signal as a detection time of a reflected beam, and to calculate a distance to a measured object based on a time difference between an output time of the measurement beam and the detection time of the reflected beam; and a waveform determining unit to determine whether the reflected beam includes a plurality of overlapping reflected beams from a plurality of measured objects, based on rising and falling characteristics of the first-order-differential reflection signal and based on a rising characteristic of a second-order-differential reflection signal obtained by the second order differential of the reflection signal.

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HOKUYO AUTOMATIC CO LTDHIGOBASHI UNION BUILDING 1-9-6 EDOBORI NISHI-KU OSAKA-SHI OSAKA 5500002

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Kamitani, Toshihiro Nishinomiya, JP 3 23
Mori, Toshihiro Takatsuki, JP 230 3660

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