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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2020
Luminar, Llc, Orlando, FL (US);
Scott R. Campbell, Sanford, FL (US);
Lane A. Martin, Vancouver, WA (US);
Matthew D. Weed, Orlando, FL (US);
Jason M. Eichenholz, Orlando, FL (US);
Luminar, LLC, Orlando, FL (US);
Abstract
A lidar system includes a light source, a scanner, and a receiver and is configured to detect remote targets located up to Rmeters away. The receiver includes a detector with a field of view larger than the light-source field of view. The scanner causes the detector field of view to move relative to the instantaneous light-source field of view along the scan direction, so that (i) when a pulse of light is emitted, the instantaneous light-source field of view is approximately centered within the detector field of view, and (ii) when a scattered pulse of light returns from a target located Rmeters away, the instantaneous light-source field of view is located near an edge of the field of view of the detector and is contained within the field of view of the detector.