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US09285464B2 Devices and methods for a rotating LIDAR platform with a shared transmit/receive path
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具有共享发送/接收路径的旋转LIDAR平台的设备和方法
- Patent Title: Devices and methods for a rotating LIDAR platform with a shared transmit/receive path
- Patent Title (中): 具有共享发送/接收路径的旋转LIDAR平台的设备和方法
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Application No.: US14462075Application Date: 2014-08-18
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Publication No.: US09285464B2Publication Date: 2016-03-15
- Inventor: Gaetan Pennecot , Pierre-Yves Droz , Drew Eugene Ulrich , Daniel Gruver , Zachary Morriss , Anthony Levandowski
- Applicant: Google Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Google Inc.
- Current Assignee: Google Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
- Main IPC: G01C3/08
- IPC: G01C3/08 ; G01S7/481 ; G01S17/89

Abstract:
A LIDAR device may transmit light pulses originating from one or more light sources and may receive reflected light pulses that are then detected by one or more detectors. The LIDAR device may include a lens that both (i) collimates the light from the one or more light sources to provide collimated light for transmission into an environment of the LIDAR device and (ii) focuses the reflected light onto the one or more detectors. The lens may define a curved focal surface in a transmit path of the light from the one or more light sources and a curved focal surface in a receive path of the one or more detectors. The one or more light sources may be arranged along the curved focal surface in the transmit path. The one or more detectors may be arranged along the curved focal surface in the receive path.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150055117A1 Devices and Methods for a Rotating LIDAR Platform with a Shared Transmit/Receive Path Public/Granted day:2015-02-26
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