Hyper Temporal Lidar with Multi-Processor Return Detection

• Main Authors: Reddy, Naveen, Liang, Alex, Polishchuk, Igor, Feru, Philippe, Dussan, Luis, Steinhardt, Allan, Benscoter, Joel
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 29.09.2022
• Subjects: ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES; COLORIMETRY; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION ORRERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; MEASUREMENT OF INTENSITY, VELOCITY, SPECTRAL CONTENT,POLARISATION, PHASE OR PULSE CHARACTERISTICS OF INFRA-RED,VISIBLE OR ULTRA-VIOLET LIGHT; MEASURING; PHYSICS; RADIATION PYROMETRY; RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; TESTING

A lidar receiver can employ multiple processors to distribute the workload of processing returns from laser pulse shots. Activation/deactivation times of pixel sets that are used by the lidar receiver to sense returns can be used to define which samples in a return buffer will be used for processing...