Patent ID: 9261357
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: B07C,G01B,G01S,H04N,Y10S

Claim Text:
1. A dimensioning system, comprising: an electronic camera adapted to measure dimensions and a position of an object, the electronic camera including a three dimensional image output, a two dimensional imaging device having a two dimensional image output, a pulsed laser light source, a beam shaping element adapted to distribute light from said pulsed laser light source, a readout integrated circuit, a laser pulse sampler adapted to sample the output of said pulsed laser light source and produce a time zero reference connected to the readout integrated circuit, a lens system for collecting pulsed laser light reflected from said object, a focal plane array positioned at a focal plane of said lens system having a geometric arrangement of light sensitive detectors, each detector producing an electrical pulse response signal from an incident pulsed laser light signal, and each of said light sensitive detectors electrically connected to an input of a unit cell electrical circuit of the readout integrated circuit with the readout integrated circuit provides the time zero reference and a clock to each of the unit cell electrical circuits; a computer including a motion command output, the computer being connected to the three dimensional image output and to the two dimensional image output to determine an intended motion; wherein each unit cell electrical circuit includes: wherein the three dimensional image output corresponds to the unit cell counter outputs and the digitized analog samples taken by each unit cell electrical circuit.