Tilt-compensated laser rangefinder

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO RE46480
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11729913

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The present invention is a laser ranging device that incorporates an internal tilt sensor, an internal temperature sensor, and an internal pressure sensor. The tilt sensor is used to measure the target's vertical angle relative to the horizontal reference plane. Digital signal processing circuitry controls the firing of the laser pulse, calculation of time-of-flight range, measurement of the vertical angle of the tilt sensor, measurement of ambient temperature and storage of tilt sensor and temperature sensor calibration data. The digital signal processing circuitry then provides the user id='REI-00001' date='20170718' temperatureid='REI-00001' corrected ballistic ranging information, including id='REI-00002' date='20170718' corrected id='REI-00002' horizontal range. Additionally, an automatic gain control system minimizes the effects of target to target variance in reflectivity and its associated errors. It is also an object of this invention to electronically minimize errors in the measurement of a vertical angle caused by housing vibration and by temperature variance errors.

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OPTI-LOGIC CORPORATIONTULLAHOMA TN

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Goodman, William L Estill Springs, US 30 810
Hines, Robin H Tullahoma, US 7 471
Johnson, Matthew A Tullahoma, US 58 1170
Murphy, Patrick J Tullahoma, US 73 1910

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