Amin, Turocy & Watson, LLP
Object intrusion detection system and method
A three-dimensional (3D) sensor device achieves high intrusion detection probability while keeping the probability of a false intrusion detection low by capturing a set of multiple spatial or temporal samples of a measured parameter for an object detected in the sensor's field of view. When an object is detected in the field of view, the TOF sensor device defines a window of N pixels comprising a subset of the pixels corresponding to the object, and obtains N distance measurements corresponding to the N pixels of the window. If the number of the N distance values that are less than a defined threshold distance is equal to or greater than a selected threshold value M (an integer less than N), the TOF sensor device determines that the object is intruding within a protective field and generates a suitable output.
Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
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