63 patents
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Steered LIDAR system with arrayed receiver
28 Nov 23
A light detection and ranging system includes synchronously scanning transmit and receive mirrors that scan a pulsed fanned laser beam in two dimensions.
Jonathan A. Morarity, Alga Lloyd Nothern, III
Filed: 30 May 19
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Adaptive LIDAR scanning methods
24 Oct 23
A light detection and ranging system includes synchronously scanning transmit and receive mirrors that scan a pulsed fanned laser beam in two dimensions.
Jonathan A. Morarity, Alga Lloyd Nothern, III, Thomas Nonn, Sumit Sharma
Filed: 30 May 19
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Method and device for optically measuring distances
24 Oct 23
What is proposed is a method for optically measuring distances, in the case of which a first plurality of measuring pulses is emitted during a first measuring interval by means of a transmitting element of a transmitting unit at first emitting times, and wherein a second plurality of measuring pulses is emitted during a second measuring interval by means of the transmitting element of the transmitting unit at second emitting times.
Hanno Holzhüter, Frederik Lange, Christian Fellenberg
Filed: 27 Oct 20
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Method and Device for Classifying Targets
5 Oct 23
A method for classifying targets is proposed, which comprises the extraction of features from measurement data of one or several receiving elements of a sensor by means of a neuronal network or by means of a Gaussian Mixture Model, wherein the respective measurement data of the at least one receiving element of the sensor involve at least one section of a photon histogram, and wherein the neuronal network involves a fully connected neuronal network or a convolutional neuronal network.
Julia NITSCH, Christian FELLENBERG, Thorbjörn POSEWSKY, Jennifer ERDMANN, Cornelia HOFSÄSS
Filed: 16 Jul 21
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LIDAR system with spatial beam combining
12 Sep 23
A light detection and ranging system includes synchronously scanning transmit and receive mirrors that scan a pulsed fanned laser beam in two dimensions.
Alga Lloyd Nothern, III, Jonathan A. Morarity, Thomas Nonn
Filed: 30 May 19
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Dynamically interlaced laser beam scanning 3D depth sensing system and method
5 Sep 23
Laser light pulses are generated and scanned in a raster pattern in a field of view.
Jari Honkanen
Filed: 16 Apr 19
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LIDAR measurement system
27 Jun 23
LIDAR measurement system with a LIDAR transmitting unit and a LIDAR receiving unit, which is configured in a focal-plane-array arrangement, wherein the LIDAR receiving unit has a plurality of sensor elements and wherein the LIDAR transmitting unit has a plurality of emitter elements, wherein a plurality of sensor elements form a macrocell, wherein the macrocell is associated with a single emitter element, wherein the distance between two adjacent emitter elements is unequal to an integer multiple of the distance between two adjacent sensor elements.
Ralf Beuschel, Rainer Kiesel
Filed: 16 Nov 18
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Arrangement and method for using light signals and groups of light-receiving elements with different sensitivities to determine a distance of an object
9 May 23
Light signals are converted into first electric signals by a first group of light-receiving elements, and the light signals are additionally converted into second electrical signals by a second group of light-receiving elements.
Ralf Beuschel, Michael Kiehn, Michael Köhler
Filed: 20 Nov 18
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Method and device for optical distance measurement
9 May 23
A method for optical distance measurement is suggested, wherein a first distribution of times-of-flight of light of detected photons of transmitted measurement pulses is determined, which is stored in a first memory area of a memory unit.
Wolfgang Birnbacher
Filed: 16 Jan 20
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Method and device for classifying objects
9 May 23
A method for classifying objects which comprises a provision of measuring data from a sensor for a feature extraction unit as well as extraction of modality-independent features from the measuring data by means of the feature extraction unit, wherein the modality-independent features are independent of a sensor modality of the sensor, so that a conclusion to the sensor modality of the sensor is not possible from the modality-independent features.
Julia Nitsch, Max Schmidt
Filed: 22 Feb 21
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Optical power reduction by masking pixels of image content
18 Apr 23
A scanning laser projection system includes a virtual protective housing circuit to automatically reduce accessible emissions of visible laser light by decimating areas of a projected image to reduce optical power exposure levels for safety, comfort, aesthetic, or system classification purposes.
Henry J. Baron
Filed: 3 Mar 20
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3D imaging system for RGB-D imaging
21 Feb 23
A 3D imaging system includes a camera to capture visible images, and a MEMS device with a scanning mirror that sweeps a beam in two dimensions.
Jari Honkanen
Filed: 29 Apr 19
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Variable phase scanning lidar system
14 Feb 23
A light detection and ranging system includes synchronously scanning transmit and receive mirrors that scan a pulsed fanned laser beam in two dimensions.
Jonathan A. Morarity, Alga Lloyd Nothern, III, Thomas Nonn, Sumit Sharma
Filed: 11 Jul 19
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Method and apparatus for filtering and filtered light detection
14 Feb 23
A non-imaging concentrator is employed in an upside down configuration in which light enters a smaller aperture and exits a larger aperture.
Matthieu Saracco, Alga Lloyd Nothern, III, P. Selvan Viswanathan, James P. McGuire
Filed: 15 Oct 18
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Scanning mirror system with attached coil
27 Dec 22
A light detection and ranging system includes synchronously scanning transmit and receive mirrors that scan a pulsed fanned laser beam in two dimensions.
Ellis Matthew
Filed: 29 Jul 19
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Scanning mirror system with attached magnet
13 Dec 22
A light detection and ranging system includes synchronously scanning transmit and receive mirrors that scan a pulsed fanned laser beam in two dimensions.
Matthew Ellis
Filed: 9 Jul 19
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Scanning Laser Devices and Methods with Non-Uniform Optical Expansion and Pulse Energy Variation
8 Dec 22
The embodiments described herein provide systems and methods that can improve performance in scanning laser devices.
Henry J. Baron, Alga Lloyd Nothern, III, Christopher Brian Adkins, Jonathan A. Morarity
Filed: 3 Jun 21
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Microelectromechanical (MEMS) scanners for scanning laser devices
29 Nov 22
The embodiments described herein include scanners that can provide improved scanning laser devices.
Matthew Ellis
Filed: 15 Jul 19
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Arrayed MEMS mirrors for large aperture applications
25 Oct 22
A light detection and ranging system includes multiple scanning mirror assemblies to increase a receive aperture.
Matthew Ellis, Jonathan A. Morarity, Alga Lloyd Nothern, III
Filed: 9 Jul 19
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Scanning Laser Devices and Methods With Detectors for Sensing Low Energy Reflections
4 Aug 22
The embodiments described herein provide systems and methods that can facilitate increased detector sensitivity and reliability in a scanning laser device.
James Dean, Christopher Cannon, Alga Lloyd Nothern, III, Joel Sandgathe
Filed: 2 Feb 21