18894097. DISTANCE MEASURING DEVICE (Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.)
DISTANCE MEASURING DEVICE
Organization Name
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
Inventor(s)
Masaharu Fukakusa of Kumamoto (JP)
DISTANCE MEASURING DEVICE
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18894097 titled 'DISTANCE MEASURING DEVICE
Original Abstract Submitted
A distance measuring device includes: a first imager and a second imager provided so as to be aligned such that fields of view thereof overlap each other; a projector configured to project pattern light in which a plurality of types of light regions having wavelength bands different from each other are distributed in a predetermined pattern, onto a range where the fields of view overlap; and a measurer configured to measure a distance to an object surface onto which the pattern light is projected, by performing a stereo correspondence point searching process on images respectively acquired by the first imager and the second imager.