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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2018
Panosense Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Subasingha Shaminda Subasingha, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Turhan Karadeniz, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Riley Andrews, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ravi Sankar Mahankali, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Panosense Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
A LIDAR device can accurately calculate distances to objects in an environment by classifying a signal received from a sensor as being a particular type of signal (e.g., saturated or unsaturated) and selecting, based on the type of signal, a detector for processing the received signal from among multiple detectors. For example, the multiple detectors may include different programming and/or circuitry for determining a time delay of arrival (TDOA) between a time that a light pulse was emitted to a time that a pulse reflected off an object was received at a light sensor. The output of the selected detector may then be used to calculate a distance to the object from which the received signal was reflected.