An all-solid-state optical range camera for 3D real-time imaging with sub-centimeter depth resolution (SwissRanger™)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5249, Issue , 2004, Pages 534-545

  Oggier, Thierry ^a   Lehmann, Michael ^a   Kaufmann, Rolf ^a   Schweizer, Matthias ^a   Richter, Michael ^a   Metzler, Peter ^a   Lang, Graham ^a   Lustenberger, Felix ^a   Blanc, Nicolas ^a  

^a CSEM   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

3D; CMOS CCD; Demodulation; Lock in pixel; Ranging; SwissRanger; Time of flight camera; TOF

Indexed keywords

3D; CMOS/CCD; LOCK-IN PIXEL; SWISSRANGER; TIME-OF-FLIGHT CAMERA; TOF;

CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COLOR; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DEMODULATION; PHOTONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCANNING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 1942521232     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.513307     Document Type: Conference Paper

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