39 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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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
Utility
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
Utility
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
Utility
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
Utility
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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Method and apparatus for LIDAR channel encoding
2 Aug 22
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: 20 Mar 19
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Automatic power reduction using a pre-scanned virtual protective housing
26 Jul 22
A scanning laser projection system includes a virtual protective housing circuit to automatically reduce power levels of visible laser light pulses when necessary to render the laser projection system eye-safe.
Jonathan Cross, Christopher Brian Adkins
Filed: 23 Sep 19
Utility
Alteration of resonant mode frequency response in mechanically resonant device
29 Mar 22
A mechanically resonant system exhibits a resonant mode frequency response.
Jonathan A. Morarity, Matthew Ellis, Christopher Brian Adkins
Filed: 14 Feb 19