63 patents
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Utility
Steered Lidar System with Arrayed Receiver
2 Dec 20
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: 29 May 19
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Laser scanning devices and methods for extended range depth mapping
23 Nov 20
Devices and methods are described that provide for scanning surfaces and generating 3-dimensional point clouds that describe the depth of the measured surface at each point.
Jari Honkanen, Robert James Jackson
Filed: 7 Jan 18
Utility
Angular velocity correction of a scanning light beam by optical methods
9 Nov 20
An angular velocity correcting optical device receives a sinusoidally swept input light beam and outputs a non-sinusoidally swept output beam.
P. Selvan Viswanathan, Matthieu Saracco, Roger F. Johnson, Ian Blanch
Filed: 22 Jul 18
Utility
3D Imaging System for RGB-D Imaging
28 Oct 20
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: 28 Apr 19
Utility
Dynamically Interlaced Laser Beam Scanning 3D Depth Sensing System and Method
21 Oct 20
Laser light pulses are generated and scanned in a raster pattern in a field of view.
Jari Honkanen
Filed: 15 Apr 19
Utility
Method and Apparatus for Lidar Channel Encoding
23 Sep 20
A light detection and ranging system modulates laser light pulses with a channel signature to encode transmitted pulses with channel information.
Jonathan A. Morarity, Christopher Brian Adkins
Filed: 19 Mar 19
Utility
Transmitter/receiver disparity for occlusion-based height estimation
31 Aug 20
A projection system emits light pulses in a field of view and measures properties of reflections.
P. Selvan Viswanathan, Jonathan A. Morarity, Alga Lloyd Nothern, III, Bin Xue
Filed: 26 Dec 16
Utility
Alteration of Resonant Mode Frequency Response in Mechanically Resonant Device
19 Aug 20
A mechanically resonant system exhibits a resonant mode frequency response.
Jonathan A. Morarity, Matthew Ellis, Christopher Brian Adkins
Filed: 13 Feb 19
Utility
Optical power sensing devices and methods
10 Aug 20
Devices and methods are described herein to measure optical power in scanning laser projectors.
Matthieu Saracco, Alga Lloyd Nothern, III, Thomas Byeman
Filed: 11 Feb 18
Utility
Color Corrected Projection System with Field of View Expansion Optic
10 Jun 20
Chromatic aberrations are corrected on a first axis of a lens system by the lens system itself.
Matthieu Saracco, Alga Lloyd Nothern, III, Jonathan A. Morarity
Filed: 5 Dec 18
Utility
Scanning time of flight 3D sensing with smart pulsing
1 Jun 20
A scanning display system includes smart infrared pulsing to detect gestures and touch events with reduced power consumption.
P. Selvan Viswanathan, Jari Honkanen
Filed: 11 Feb 18
Utility
Method and Apparatus For Filtering and Filtered Light Detection
15 Apr 20
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: 14 Oct 18
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Method and apparatus for laser beam combining and speckle reduction
6 Apr 20
A beam combining device combines laser beams and performs speckle reduction of the laser light.
Alga Lloyd Nothern, III, Matthieu Saracco, Roeland Collet, Thomas Byeman
Filed: 8 Apr 18
Utility
Method and apparatus for collimating light from a laser diode
23 Mar 20
A bi-acylindrical lens collimates a divergent elliptical laser beam.
Matthieu Saracco
Filed: 8 Mar 18
Utility
Laser welded scanner assemblies
16 Mar 20
The embodiments described herein provide improved scanner assemblies that include a first plastic body, a second plastic body, a movable scanning platform and a drive device.
Thomas Byeman, Naili Yue, Sumit Sharma
Filed: 18 Dec 17
Utility
Angular Velocity Correction of a Scanning Light Beam by Optical Methods
22 Jan 20
An angular velocity correcting optical device receives a sinusoidally swept input light beam and outputs a non-sinusoidally swept output beam.
P. Selvan Viswanathan, Matthieu Saracco, Roger F. Johnson, Ian Blanch
Filed: 22 Jul 18
Utility
Compensation for Laser Light Source Misalignment in a Multiple Laser Scanning TOF Sensor System
15 Jan 20
Laser light pulses of at least two different wavelengths are reflected off a scanning mirror.
Henry J. Baron, Phillip R. Kent
Filed: 9 Jul 18
Utility
Mixed-mode depth detection
9 Dec 19
Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a MEMS laser beam display to implement mixed-mode depth detection comprises an imaging engine to project an image in a field of view of the MEMS laser beam display, a time of flight (TOF) depth detector to determine a distance to a target within the field of view in a first mode of depth detection, wherein the TOF depth detector determines coarse depth data of the target, and a structured light depth detector to determine a distance to the target in a second mode of depth detection, wherein the structured light depth detector determines fine depth data of the target.
P. Selvan Viswanathan
Filed: 7 Sep 15
Utility
Optical steering of component wavelengths of a multi-wavelength beam to enable interactivity
18 Nov 19
Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, an information handling system comprises a scanning system to scan one or more component wavelength beams into a combined multi-component beam in a first field of view, and a redirecting system to redirect one or more of the component wavelength beams into a second field of view.
P. Selvan Viswanathan, Roeland Collet, George Thomas Valliath, Jari Honkanen, Matthieu Saracco
Filed: 15 Feb 16
Utility
Smart pulsing in regions of interest in scanned beam 3D sensing systems
11 Nov 19
A scanned beam 3D sensing system includes smart infrared pulsing to detect objects in a field of view.
P. Selvan Viswanathan, Jari Honkanen
Filed: 11 Feb 18