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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2016
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Somdeb Majumdar, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Ernest Ozaki, Poway, CA (US);
Richard Anthony Calle, San Francisco, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A scanning device generally produces an image having a uniform resolution throughout a target region. To improve radar scanning/lidar scanning, an efficient scan approach to enable a radar device/lidar device to adoptively perform a scan of a target region based on interested regions and/or an adjustable resolution. The apparatus may be a scanning device for scanning. The apparatus performs a first scan over a target region to obtain a plurality of first scan samples at a plurality of locations within the target region. The apparatus generates a saliency map of the target region based on signal intensities of the plurality of first scan samples. The apparatus determines a salient region within the target region based on the saliency map. The apparatus performs at least one second scan over the salient region to obtain at least one second scan sample in the salient region.