LIDAR SYSTEMS AND METHODS

• Main Authors: ANTMAN, Yair, BERMAN, Pavel, ALPERN, Yair, KEILAF, Omer David, MEDINA, Moshe, KREMER, Hanoch, BUSKILA, Oren, ZOHAR, Guy, STEINBERG, Amit, ESHEL, Ronen, ROSENZWEIG, Oren, ELOOZ, David, DAVID RALY, Smadar, KAHANA, Nir, SOURANI, Sason, DAY, Amir, YERUHAMI, Oded, OSIROFF, Nir, VLAIKO, Julian
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 14.06.2023
• Subjects: ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION ORRERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; MEASURING; PHYSICS; RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; TESTING

Systems and methods use LIDAR technology to, for example detect objects in an environment. In one implementation, a LIDAR system includes at least one processor configured to: control at least one light source in a manner enabling light flux to vary over a scan of a field of view using light from the at least one light source; control at least one light deflector to deflect light from the at least one light source in order to scan the field of view; use first detected reflections associated with a scan of a first portion of the field of view to determine an existence of a first object in the first portion at a first distance; determine an absence of objects in a second portion of the field of view at the first distance; following the detection of the first reflections and the determination of the absence of objects in the second portion, alter a light source parameter such that more light is projected toward the second portion of the field of view than is projected toward the first portion of the field of view; and use second detected reflections in the second portion of the field of view to determine an existence of a second object at a second distance greater than the first distance.