DYNAMIC POWER THROTTLING OF SPINNING LIDAR
    51.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:WO2021061178A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-01

    申请号:PCT/US2019/068845

    申请日:2019-12-28

    Inventor: VETS, Robert

    Abstract: An autonomous vehicle having a LIDAR system that scans a field of view is described herein. With more specificity, a computing system of the autonomous vehicle defines a region of interest in the field of view for a scan of the field of view by the LIDAR system. The region of interest is a portion of the field of view. Based on the region of interest, the computing system transmits a control signal to the LIDAR system that causes the LIDAR system to emit first light pulses with a first intensity within the region of interest during the scan and second light pulses with a second intensity outside the region of interest during the scan. The first intensity is different from the second intensity to provide different ranges for distance measurements inside and outside the region of interest.

    METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING VIOLATION OF A DRIVING-RELATED LAW

    公开(公告)号:WO2021055330A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-25

    申请号:PCT/US2020/050832

    申请日:2020-09-15

    Abstract: A method for detecting violation of a driving-related law includes producing, by at least one camera, at least one image of a vehicle. The method includes analyzing, by an analysis engine, the at least one image. The analysis engine identifies, based on analyzing the at least one image, a physical position of a driver of the vehicle within the vehicle and identifies a direction of a gaze of the driver. The analysis engine determines that at least one of the physical position of the driver within the vehicle and the direction of the gaze of the driver are associated with a violation of a driving-related law. The method includes transmitting, by a citation management component, a notification of the association between the at least one of the physical position of the driver and the direction of the gaze of the driver and the violation, based upon the determination.

    一种直方图可调的飞行时间距离测量系统及测量方法

    公开(公告)号:WO2021051477A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-25

    申请号:PCT/CN2019/113706

    申请日:2019-10-28

    Abstract: 提供一种直方图可调的飞行时间距离测量系统,包括:发射器(11),经配置以发射脉冲光束(30);采集器(12),经配置以采集被物体(20)反射回的脉冲光束(40)中的光子并形成光子信号;处理电路(13),与发射器(11)以及采集器(12)连接,包括TDC电路(321)以及直方图电路(322),其中TDC电路(321)用于接收和计算光子信号的时间间隔,并将时间间隔转化成时间码;直方图电路(322)基于时间码在内部相应的时间单元上进行计数,经过多次测量后将所有时间单元内的光子计数进行统计以绘制直方图。时间单元的地址可以动态调整以使得直方图的时间分辨率和/或时间区间宽度进行动态调整。还提供了直方图可调的飞行时间距离测量方法。

    FLASH LIDAR HAVING NONUNIFORM LIGHT MODULATION

    公开(公告)号:WO2021019308A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-04

    申请号:PCT/IB2020/000894

    申请日:2020-04-23

    Inventor: STEINBERG, Amit

    Abstract: A method for detecting objects using a LIDAR system may include controlling a light emission assembly comprising a light source in a manner enabling spatial light modulation to a field of view (FOV) of the LIDAR system to vary during different flash light emissions of the light emission assembly. The method may also include controlling a sensor to detect first reflection signals indicative of reflections of first flash light emissions from objects in the FOV. The method may further include determining a nonuniform spatial light modulation for the light emission assembly based on at least one of the first reflection signals. The method may also include instructing the light emission assembly to emit to the FOV a second flash light emission in accordance with the nonuniform spatial light modulation, and detecting an object in the FOV based on second reflection signals of the second flash light emission.

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EYE-SAFE LIDAR
    57.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:WO2021014210A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-28

    申请号:PCT/IB2020/000602

    申请日:2020-07-17

    Inventor: ESHEL, Ronen

    Abstract: An electrooptical system may include a processor programmed to control a light source to enable light flux to vary over a scan of a field-of-view using light from the light source. The FOV may be divided into a plurality of segments, which may include a first set of non-contiguous segments, and each of the non-contiguous segments included in the first set may be separated from other non-contiguous segments in the first set by at least one segment. The scanning of the field-of-view may include sequentially illuminating the non-contiguous segments, which may proceed such that, during illumination of a particular non-contiguous segment in the first set of non-contiguous segments, other segments in the plurality of segments are not be illuminated, and such that other segments in the plurality of segments are not be illuminated between the illuminations of the non-contiguous segments in the first set of non-contiguous segments.

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POSE DETERMINATION
    58.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:WO2021012245A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-28

    申请号:PCT/CN2019/097611

    申请日:2019-07-25

    Abstract: A method for determining a pose of a subject is provided. The method may include identifying a plurality of sets of data points representing a plurality of cross sections of a path from point-cloud data representative of a surrounding environment (510), wherein the plurality of cross sections may be perpendicular to the ground surface and distributed along a first reference direction associated with the subject. The method may also include determining a feature vector of the at least one curb based on the plurality of sets of data points (520), determining at least one reference feature vector of the at least one curb based on an estimated pose of the subject and a location information database (530), and determining the pose of the subject by updating the estimated pose of the subject (540).

    POST-SCANNER TELESCOPE OPTICS FOR LIDAR SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:WO2021001502A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-07

    申请号:PCT/EP2020/068727

    申请日:2020-07-02

    Applicant: BLICKFELD GMBH

    Abstract: A LIDAR system (100) includes a scanner module (159) arranged in a transmit beam (121) of primary laser light and configured to deflect the transmit beam (121) at a variable scanning angle. The LIDAR system also includes a laser (101) arranged on a first side of the transmit beam (121) with respect to the scanner module (159) and defining an origin of the transmit beam (121) by emitting the primary laser light, and a telescope optics module (201) arranged on a second side of the scanner module (159) in the transmit beam (121). The telescope optics module (201) comprises a concave lens (211) and a convex lens (221) arranged in sequence. The telescope optics module can provide for beam expansion.

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