Imaging (sensors)

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Resolved! VL53L4CX one-cycle delay in the returned data

Hi:When I move the object detected by the VL53L4CX, I find that there is a one cycle delay in the distance it returns. Is this because its first data is discarded?(Range status=6)? Is there a way to improve this?Thankyou.Cyt 

sctz by Associate III
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Vl53l1x ToF Sensor does not initialize

Hi,I use to 12 ToF(Vl53l1x) sensor on the robot for security range detect. And at the some situations, this sensors stop ranging data. I detect last regular data and then reset sensor. when starting sensor can do bootstate function. But can not do se...

hsynklc by Associate II
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Resolved! distance measurement

Hello I want to measure the distance of water in a cylindrical container to the lid of the cylindrical container. I need to find the height of the water by subtracting the measured distance from the height of the cylindrical container. Since there is...

AKULC.1 by Associate II
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Resolved! VL53L5CX & VL53L1CB resolution

Hello,I can't find the measurement accuracy of the 2 sensors mentioned above in your documentation. Could you please provide me with this information?Thank you.Regards, 

Florian3 by Associate
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Difference Between A and B Message

I've seen references to various A and B or (even and odd) messages for the ToF sensors.In my application, it turns out that every other measurement is not great, so if I throw out packets based on their message ID count, then I get perfect data but a...

Resolved! VL53L5CX safety for human detection

Hello,I plan to use VL53L5CX to measure the distance between the robot and the user (human) in the walker project. I would like to ask if it is safe or not. Regards,Fehmi.

FKara.3 by Senior
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Resolved! Device unique ID for VL53L5CX ?

Hello all,does the vl53l5cx ULD API (STSW-IMG023) can expose  a unique device ID for the VL53L5CX ? Something similar to the VL51L1 API function call "VL53L1_Error VL53L1_GetUID(VL53L1_DEV Dev, uint64_t *pUid)"  in the driver SWSW-IMG019 ? Kind regar...

LK by Associate II
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Resolved! Cover Glass - XTalk Limit (Algorithmn) for various FlightSense Products

Hi all,I'am wondernig about the max XTalk level in kcps which various FlightSense products can compensate. I found only for the new VL53L8CX Sensor a  xtalk compensation limit of 300 kcps - mentioned in application note  AN5939 in section 7 : Guideli...

LK by Associate II
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Resolved! Gesture Library for VL53L5 linking error for b-u585i-iot02a board: undefined reference to taylor_sqr

Hello to all, I create a new project using STM32CubeMX for the b-u585i-iot02a board. Then I added to the project the software and the library for the gesture recognition STSW-IMG035, specific to M33 processor. Compiling, I have this error:Description...

clemente by Associate III
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