Hyper temporal lidar using multiple matched filters to determine target obliquity

L Dussan, A Steinhardt, J Benscoter… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
A lidar system comprises a photodetector circuit and a signal processing circuit. The
photodetector circuit comprises an array of pixels for sensing incident light. The signal pro …

Hyper temporal lidar with dynamic laser control and shot order simulation

P Feru, L Dussan, J Benscoter, A Liang… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
A lidar system that includes a laser source and a scannable mirror can be controlled to fire
laser pulse shots from the laser source toward targeted range points via the scannable …

Hyper temporal lidar with dynamic control of variable energy laser source

P Feru, L Dussan, J Benscoter, A Liang… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
A lidar system that includes a variable energy laser source and transmits laser pulses
produced by the variable energy laser source toward range points in a field of view can use …

Hyper temporal lidar with pulse burst scheduling

J Greene, J Benscoter, L Dussan, A Steinhardt… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
A lidar system includes a lidar transmitter and a control circuit. The lidar transmitter can
controllably fire a plurality of laser pulse shots into a field of view, and the control circuit can …

Hyper temporal lidar with detection-based adaptive shot scheduling

P Feru, L Dussan, J Benscoter, A Liang… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
A lidar system that includes a laser source and a scannable mirror can be controlled to
adaptively schedule the firing of laser pulse shots at range points in a field of view. A first …

Switchable multi-lens Lidar receiver

J Benscoter, L Dussan, A Steinhardt, P Feru… - US Patent …, 2023 - Google Patents
G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR
VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE …

Hyper temporal lidar with dynamic laser control using different mirror motion models for shot scheduling and shot firing

P Feru, L Dussan, J Benscoter, A Liang… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
A lidar system that includes a laser source and a scannable mirror can be controlled to
schedule the firing of laser pulse shots at range points in a field of view. A first mirror motion …

Hyper temporal lidar with multi-processor return detection

N Reddy, A Steinhardt, L Dussan, J Benscoter… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
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 …

Hyper temporal lidar with shot scheduling for variable amplitude scan mirror

P Feru, L Dussan, J Benscoter, IW Jung… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
A lidar system that includes a laser source and transmits laser pulses produced by the laser
source toward range points in a field of view via a mirror that scans through a plurality of …

Hyper temporal lidar with dynamic laser control using marker shots

P Feru, L Dussan, J Benscoter, A Liang… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
A lidar system that includes a laser source can be controlled to fire laser pulse shots from the
laser source at a variable rate of firing those laser pulse shots. The fired laser pulse shots …