Sos Lab Co., Ltd.

Lg Chem, Ltd

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology

Lg Chemical Ltd.

Jun Hwan Jang

Hyang Mok Lee

Byungjin Choi

Dong Kyu Kim

Ji Seong Jeong

Sung Ui Hwang

Bum Sik Won

Chang Bum Ahn

Hee Sun Yoon

Hyung Ku Yun

Hyun-Chul Jung

Yong Yi Lee

Gyeong Hwan Shin

Wooyong Lee

Chan M Lim

JeongSam Son

Hyo Jung Jang

Jai Hi Cho

Hoon Il Jeong

Gwang Bin Kim

Chang Mo Jeong

Sung Hi Hwang

Sung-Min Hwang

Kyi Hwan Park

Yunhee Hwang

Deok Yun Jang

Dong Jun Kim

The present invention relates to a multi-channel lidar sensor module capable of measuring at least two target objects using one image sensor. The multi-channel lidar sensor module according to an embodiment of the present invention includes at least one pair of light emitting units configured to emit laser beams and a light receiving unit formed between the at least one pair of emitting units and configured to receive at least one pair of reflected laser beams which are emitted from the at least one pair of light emitting units and reflected by target objects.

Multi-channel LiDAR sensor module

A LiDAR device including a emitting unit configured to emit a laser, a detecting unit configured to detect the laser, and a controller configured to control the emitting unit and the detecting unit, wherein the controller is configured to operate the LiDAR device at in at least a first operation mode or a second operation mode in which power consumption per unit time is lower than that of the first operation mode, and wherein the controller is configured to switch an operation mode of the LiDAR device from the first operation mode to the second operation mode when the controller receives a first trigger signal from a first device, and switch the operation mode of the LiDAR device from the second operation mode to the first operation mode when the controller receives a second trigger signal from the first device.

LiDAR device having a smart power management system and an operating method of the lidar device implementing the smart power management system

A vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) array, comprising: a first sub-array includes a plurality of VCSEL units arranged along a first axis, and wherein the first sub-array includes: a first VCSEL unit includes a first upper contact and a first bottom contact; and a second VCSEL unit includes a second upper contact and a second bottom contact; a first contact electrically connected to the first upper contact and the second bottom contact; and a second contact electrically connected to the second upper contact and the first bottom contact, wherein the first VCSEL unit is operated when a first voltage is applied to the first contact and a second voltage smaller than the first voltage is applied to the second contact, and wherein the second VCSEL unit is operated when the second voltage is applied to the first contact and the first voltage is applied to the second contact.

Laser emitting unit and LiDAR device using the same

Proposed is a shared vehicle service providing method based on a shared vehicle management server communicating with a shared vehicle and a user device. Also proposed is a shared vehicle service providing method for managing an article of a shared vehicle user on the basis of a shared vehicle management server. For example, proposed is a shared vehicle service providing method in which a shared vehicle management server manages dispatch of a shared vehicle and an article of a user on the basis of data acquired from the shared vehicle and a user device.

Shared vehicle service providing method performed by server communicating with user device of passenger and autonomous vehicle

A lidar device comprises: a laser emitting unit for including a plurality of VCSEL elements emitting a laser beam; a metasurface for including a plurality of beam steering cells arranged in a form of two-dimensional array by a row direction and a column direction, wherein the plurality of beam steering cells guide the laser beam by using nanopillars; wherein the nanopillars included in the plurality of beam steering cells form a subwavelength pattern, wherein the increase of an attribute related to at least one of the width, height, and number per unit length of the nanopillars is repetitive along the direction from the center of the metasurface to the position of the row corresponding to the plurality of beam steering cells.

LiDAR device comprising a plurality of beam steering cells for steering a laser beam

A light detection and ranging (lidar) device includes: a lower base; an upper base; a laser emitting unit for emitting a laser in a form of a point light source; a nodding mirror for transforming the laser in the form of the point light source to a line beam pattern which is perpendicular to the lower base, wherein the nodding mirror reflects the laser emitted from the laser emitting unit; a polygonal mirror for transforming the line beam pattern to a plane beam pattern and receiving a laser reflected from an object; and a sensor unit for receiving the laser reflected from the object via the polygonal mirror.

LiDAR device

The present invention relates to a light detecting and ranging (LiDAR) device for obtaining information on a distance from an object using laser light. A light detection and ranging (LiDAR) device according to the present invention may include: a laser emitting unit configured to emit a laser, a first scanner configured to obtain the laser emitted by the laser emitting unit and continuously change a travel path of the laser so as to extend a irradiation area to a line shape, a second scanner configured to obtain and continuously changes the travel path of the laser projected from the first scanner which has a line-shaped irradiation area, so as to extend the irradiation area to a plane shape, and a sensor configured to detect a laser reflected from an object located in a scanning area by the laser projected from the second scanner, wherein the first scanner comprises nodding mirror which extend the irradiation area to a line shape by changing a travel path of the laser while nodding within a preset angle range, and wherein the second scanner comprises a rotating polygon mirror which changes the travel path of the laser which has the line-shaped irradiation area by rotating on one axis so as to extend the irradiation area to a plane shape.

Sharing sensor data between a first device and a second device comprising obtaining a set of point data from at least one of sensors located in the first device, determining a property data of the subset of point data based on the subset of point data, generating a first sharing data for sharing with the second device based on the property data, transmitting the sharing data to the second device, identifying an occurrence of an event at a first time point, and generating a second sharing data different from the first sharing data. A content of the second sharing data includes at least a portion of the set of point data obtained within a first time period including the first time point.

Method of sharing and using sensor data

Sharing sensor data of a first device with a second device includes obtaining a set of point data from at least one of a sensors located in the first device, generating a first property data of the first subset of point data based on the first subset of point data, generating a sharing data including at least a portion of the first subset of point data and the first property data, and transmitting the sharing data to the second device. If a class of a first object included in the class information a class in which personal information must be protected, a content of the sharing data includes a privacy protection data in which the first subset of point data is processed such that personal information of the first object does not identified by the second device.

According to an aspect of the present disclosure, provided is a shared vehicle service providing method based on a shared vehicle management server communicating with a shared vehicle and a user device. Also provided is a shared vehicle service providing method for managing an article of a shared vehicle user on the basis of a shared vehicle management server. More specifically, provided is a shared vehicle service providing method in which a shared vehicle management server manages dispatch of a shared vehicle and an article of a user on the basis of data acquired from the shared vehicle and a user device.

Multi-channel lidar sensor module

Provided is an object recognition device for performing object recognition on a field of view (FoV). The object recognition device includes a light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data acquisition module configured to acquire data for the FoV from a sensor configured to project the FoV with a laser and receive reflected light, and a control module configured to perform object recognition on an object of interest in the FoV using an artificial neural network, wherein the control module includes a region of interest extraction module configured to acquire region of interest data based on acquired intensity data for the FoV, and an object recognition module configured to acquire object recognition data using an artificial neural network, and recognize the object of interest for the FoV.

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Jun Hwan Jang