Electro-optical sensors with fiber optic bundles
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Apr 10, 1984
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Jul 29, 1980
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Method and apparatus for determining physical characteristics of an object, such as its location, utilizing a non-coherent fiber optic bundle. In one embodiment, a non-coherent fiber optic bundle containing up to 30% randomly non-aligned fibers is utilized and an object is imaged onto one end of the bundle and the image is transferred from the other end of the bundle to a photodetector comprising a plurality of discrete photodetector elements. The area of the lighted or unlighted portion at the other end of the bundle is utilized to determine the physical characteristics of the object.
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