G01J 1/0266
Field-of-view determination
Official title: {Field-of-view determination; Aiming or pointing of a photometer; Adjusting alignment; Encoding angular position; Size of the measurement area; Position tracking; Photodetection involving different fields of view for a single detector}
G01J1/0266 (Field-of-view determination) appears on 293 US grants and 290 published applications in this corpus.
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