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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2018
Aeye, Inc., Fairview Heights, IL (US);
Luis Carlos Dussan, Dublin, CA (US);
Allan Steinhardt, Brentwood, CA (US);
David Cook, San Ramon, CA (US);
Blair B. Lacorte, Belvedere, CA (US);
AEYE, INC., Fairview Heights, IL (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are a number of example embodiments that employ controllable delays between successive ladar pulses in order to discriminate between 'own' ladar pulse reflections and 'interfering' ladar pulses reflections by a receiver. Example embodiments include designs where a sparse delay sum circuit is used at the receiver and where a funnel filter is used at the receiver. Also, disclosed are techniques for selecting codes to use for the controllable delays as well as techniques for identifying and tracking interfering ladar pulses and their corresponding delay codes. The use of a ladar system with pulse deconfliction is also disclosed as part of an optical data communication system.