OBJECT LOCATION OR DETECTION METHOD Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC G01S17/06 

FIELD: physics, optics.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to optical instrument making. A method of locating or detecting an object using an active pulsed device, which includes a receiving electro-optical converter (EOC) and a laser emitter which generates short pulses for illuminating an object, reflections from the object of which are summed in a frame of the EOC, wherein after each generation of a short pulse for illuminating an object with a given duration τ, the method comprises periodically turning on the EOC for a time π through a given delay time t₃ with frequency f_g=1/(π+τ) for a given time θ, wherein the number of instances of turning the EOC per pulse is selected not greater than a value K_max=(t_3Kmax-t₃)/(τ+π), where t_3Kmax=(1/f-π) is the maximum delay time for turning on the EOC for the laser emitter which generates short pulses for illuminating an object with frequency f, t₃ is the delay time of turning on the EOC until the beginning of the period of time θ.

EFFECT: obtaining image definition and brightness with a high scene depth.

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