Method and apparatus for an adaptive ladar receiver

LC Dussan, A Steinhardt, D Cook - US Patent 11,693,099, 2023 - Google Patents
Disclosed herein are various embodiments of an adaptive ladar receiver and associated
method whereby the active pixels in a photodetector array used for reception of ladar pulse …

Adaptive ladar receiver control using spatial index of prior ladar return data

LC Dussan, A Steinhardt, F Presutti… - US Patent …, 2023 - Google Patents
Disclosed herein are examples of ladar systems and methods where data about a plurality
of ladar returns from prior ladar pulse shots gets stored in a spatial index that associates …

LIDAR system with anamorphic objective lens

RS Upton, A Shpunt, AJ Sutton, CS Kakani… - US Patent …, 2023 - Google Patents
An optical device includes a transmitter, which emits a beam of optical radiation, and a
receiver, which includes a detector configured to output a signal in response to the optical …

Distance measuring device

H Kubota, N Matsumoto, Y Oota, S Sato - 2019 - Google Patents
G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR
VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE …

LIDAR system with speckle mitigation

N Satyan, G Rakuljic - US Patent 11,555,923, 2023 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT LIDAR systems, and methods of measuring a scene are disclosed. A laser
source emits one or more optical beams. A scanning optical system scans the optical beams …