Patent 10254402 was granted and assigned to Goodrich Corporation on April, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An apparatus for determining a distance to a target area includes an imaging system configured to provide at least two images of a target area. The images are associated with different imaging axes. A Lidar system including at least one laser is configured to direct an optical beam to the target and an optical detection system configured to receive a portion of the optical beam from the target area and establish a distance to the target area based on the received portion.