Range finder

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10520792-B2
Application number	US-201816028648-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 6, 2018
Priority date	Nov 3, 2014
Publication date	Dec 31, 2019
Grant date	Dec 31, 2019

Abstract

A range finder includes a laser transmitter, a laser receiver, a large-aperture objective lens unit, an image sensing device, a display device and a microphone. The laser transmitter is configured to emit a laser beam to a measured object. The laser receiver is configured to receive a reflected laser beam reflected by the measured object. The objective lens unit is configured to allow visible light reflected by the measured object to pass therethrough, includes an objective lens and a focusing lens and has a length defined by the objective lens and the focusing lens. The image sensing device is configured to receive the visible light passing through the objective lens and generate an image signal. The length is constant when the objective lens unit is moved with respect to the image sensing device for focusing operation.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A range finder, comprising:
a laser transmitter configured to emit a laser beam to a measured object;
a laser receiver configured to receive a reflected laser beam reflected by the measured object;
a objective lens unit configured to allow visible light reflected by the measured object to pass therethrough, comprising a first objective lens having a first surface facing an object side and a first focusing lens having a second surface facing an image side;
an image sensing device configured to receive the visible light passing through the first objective lens and generate an image signal;
a display device configured to receive the image signal and display an image of the measured object; and
wherein the objective lens unit has a first length, the first length is constant and defined as a distance between a center of the first surface and a center of the second surface;
wherein the objective lens unit is configured to move with respect to the image sensing device for focusing operation;
wherein the reflected laser beam does not pass through the objective lens unit;
wherein the objective lens unit has an f-number ranging from 1.47 to 1.63.

2. The range finder as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a collimating lens disposed between the laser transmitter and the measured object.

3. The range finder as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a collective lens disposed between the laser receiver and the measured object.

4. The range finder as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first focusing lens is disposed between the first objective lens and the image sensing device.

5. The range finder as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising an eyepiece disposed near the display device for observing the display device.

6. The range finder as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the display device comprises a liquid crystal display, an organic liquid crystal display or an active-matrix organic light emitting diode display.

7. The range finder as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising an iris aperture, an electrochromic sheet or a photochromic sheet configured to constrain the visible light from entering the range finder.

8. The range finder as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a filter disposed between the collective lens and the laser receiver to allow only the reflected laser beam to pass.

9. The range finder as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the objective lens unit has a moving distance, a second ratio of the moving distance to a distance between the objective lens unit and the image sensing device is about 0.04.

10. The range finder as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the second ratio of the moving distance to the distance between the objective lens unit and the image sensing device ranges from 0.038 to 0.045.

11. The range finder as claimed in claim 9 , further comprising an adjusting ring configured to move the objective lens unit with respect to the image sensing device for adjusting the distance.

12. The range finder as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the image of the measured object is captured by the range finder at an object distance, and the object distance ranges from 4.5 m to ∞ when the distance between the objective lens unit and the image sensing device is adjusted.

13. The range finder as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a detachable frontal cover configured to constrain the visible light from entering the range finder for decreasing the amount of the visible light passing through the objective lens unit.

14. The range finder as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the detachable frontal cover comprises a main cover, an optical filter and a retaining ring, and the optical filter is disposed on the main cover by means of the retaining ring.

15. The range finder as claimed in claim 13 , wherein an aperture of the objective lens unit has a first diameter, an aperture of the detachable frontal cover has a second diameter and a ratio of the second diameter to the first diameter ranges from 0.22 to 0.26.

16. The range finder as claimed in claim 13 , wherein a ratio of an aperture of the detachable frontal cover to an aperture of the objective lens unit ranges from 0.05 to 0.06.

17. The range finder as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the objective lens unit further comprises a second objective lens having a third surface facing the image side and a second focusing lens having a fourth surface facing the object side and has a second length, the first objective lens, the second objective lens, the second focusing lens and the first focusing lens are sequentially arranged from the object side to the image side and the second length is constant and defined as a distance between a center of the third surface and a center of the fourth surface.

18. The range finder as claimed in claim 17 , wherein a ratio of the second length to the first length ranges from 0.48 to 0.54.

Assignees

• Sintai Optical Shenzhen Co Ltd
• Asia Optical Co Inc

Inventors

• Liu Hua-Tang
• Chen Hui-Qing
• Zhao Lian
• Wang Chin-Hsiang
• Ma fang-li

Classifications

• H04N23/53

  of electronic viewfinders, e.g. rotatable or detachable · CPC title

• H04N23/671

  in combination with active ranging signals, e.g. using light or sound signals emitted toward objects · CPC title

• G02B25/001

  Eyepieces · CPC title

• G01S17/86

  Combinations of lidar systems with systems other than lidar, radar or sonar, e.g. with direction finders · CPC title

• G02B13/16

  for use in conjunction with image converters or intensifiers {, or for use with projectors, e.g. objectives for projection TV} · CPC title