Patent ID: 8670130

Claim:
A laser scanner for performing multi-point measurement by projecting a plurality of pulsed beams, used as distance measuring lights, over total circumference for scanning, wherein said laser scanner comprises a main unit and a rotating unit rotatably mounted around a center axis as the center with respect to said main unit, said rotating unit has a second deflection member for projecting said pulsed beams by deflecting the beams perpendicularly to center axis of said rotating unit, said main unit comprises a plurality of light emitting sources disposed on a plane perpendicular to said center axis, in a two-dimensional arrangement with said center axis as a center of said arrangement and used for emitting each of said plurality of pulsed beams, a plurality of first deflection members, each provided face-to-face with a respective light emitting source for deflecting pulsed laser beams from said light emitting sources in the direction of said second deflection member, an optical system for projecting and receiving said pulsed beams, a rotation angle detecting unit for detecting a horizontal rotation angle of said rotating unit, a plurality of photodetectors, equal to a number of said light emitting sources, being disposed at positions conjugate to said light emitting sources respectively, and for receiving a reflection light from an object via said second deflection member, a distance measuring unit for measuring a distance based on a photodetection signal from said photodetector, and a control arithmetic unit for calculating projecting directions of said pulsed laser beams projected from said deflection member based on the disposed position of said light emitting sources and on the result of detection by the rotation angle detecting unit.