Recording of distance profiles

An apparatus for recording distance profiles each having a plurality of distance image points, the apparatus comprising:

• at least two transmitters connected to a control unit and arranged in a transmitter array respectively for a transmission of electromagnetic radiation into a recording region;
• at least one reception unit for a detection of radiation reflected from the recording region, the reception unit comprising at least two receivers;
• an evaluation unit for determining the distances of objects at which the transmitted electromagnetic radiation is reflected, with the distances each forming a distance image point, the evaluation unit connected to the reception unit and the control unit, the evaluation module determining the distances by measuring the time of flight and/or the phase shift of the electromagnetic radiation between at least one of the two transmitters and at least one of the two receivers;
• and
• a deflection unit comprising a rotating mirror which deflects the transmitted electromagnetic radiation within a scanning angle region into a scanning direction in order to, per distance profile, consecutively generate a plurality of scanning patterns of distance image points, with the distance image points being displaced against one another in the scanning direction and with the distance image points each imaging the transmitter array;
• wherein at least a few of the distance image points are spaced apart from one another in the scanning direction in each of the scanning patterns.