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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2016
Luminar Technologies, Inc., Portola Valley, CA (US);
Alain Villeneuve, Mont-Royal, CA;
Jason M. Eichenholz, Orlando, FL (US);
Luminar Technologies, Inc., Orlando, FL (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a lidar system includes a light source configured to emit pulses of light. The lidar system also includes multiple optical links and multiple sensor heads. Each optical link couples the light source to a corresponding sensor head, and each optical link is configured to convey at least a portion of the emitted pulses of light from the light source to the corresponding sensor head. Each sensor head includes a scanner configured to scan pulses of light across a field of regard of the sensor head, where the scanned pulses of light include the portion of the emitted pulses of light conveyed from the light source to the sensor head by the corresponding optical link. Each sensor head also includes a receiver configured to detect at least a portion of the scanned pulses of light scattered or reflected by a target located downrange from the sensor head.