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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2015
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Volodimir Slobodyanyuk, San Diego, CA (US);
Richard George Martin, San Diego, CA (US);
Donald Bolden Hutson, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Solid-state electronic light detection and ranging (LIDAR) is disclosed. In one aspect, an electronic device for use in a LIDAR system is provided. The electronic device includes a plurality of electrically controllable light-direction-changing elements. The electronic device is configured to receive, from a laser, a beam of light. The electronic device also receives, from a controller, a series of signals that control the electrically controllable light-direction-changing elements to generate a successive series of different diffraction grating patterns configured to move at least one intensity maxima to a corresponding successive series of locations across a field of view (FOV).