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US 12,768,953 B2Granted
Optical detector, systems, and methods
AssigneeAttollo Engineering, LLC
InventorsTimothy A. Strand, Jonathan Geske
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Abstract
An optical detector configured to detect a presence and a location of modulated light including a wide FOV detector having one or more photodiode and a narrow FOV detector having a narrow-FOV photodiode. The wide FOV detector at least partially surrounds the narrow FOV detector and provides a wide FOV, and the narrow FOV detector provides a narrow FOV. The optical detector can be implemented in a single optical detector system having a single optical path to a single focal plane.
Claims13
An optical detection system, comprising:
- a lens having a focal plane;
- a wide field of view (FOV) detector configured to detect incident light at the focal plane corresponding to a wide FOV, wherein the wide FOV detector includes a window to allow incident light to pass through;
- a narrow FOV detector configured to detect incident light at the focal plane corresponding to a narrow FOV, wherein the narrow FOV detector is positioned to detect the incident light passed through the window, wherein the narrow FOV is smaller than the wide FOV;
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- wherein the wide FOV detector and the narrow FOV detector are located in a single detection plane relative to the lens,
- wherein the wide FOV detector includes a first type of optical detector element and wherein the narrow FOV detector includes a second type of optical detector element, wherein the second type of optical detector element is more sensitive than the first type of optical detector element.
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