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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 10, 2019
Applicant:

Robert Bosch Gmbh, Stuttgart, DE;

Inventors:

Daniel Aquino Maier, Stuttgart, DE;

Matthias Wichmann, Gaertringen, DE;

Assignee:

Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 17/08 (2006.01); G01S 7/481 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/4817 (2013.01); G01S 7/4811 (2013.01); G01S 17/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

A LIDAR sensor, including: a transceiver-array, which includes a plurality of optical-transceivers, the transceiver-array being a switched-array photonic integrated-circuit, each of the optical-transceivers being set up to in each instance take in a first scanning-spot in a first field-of-view of the LIDAR sensor; a microlens-array which has a plurality of microlenses, the microlens-array being disposed in an optical path of the LIDAR sensor in front of the transceiver array, one each of the microlenses in the optical-path being situated in front of one each of the optical-transceivers; a lens that is disposed in the optical-path in front of the microlens-array; and an optical-scanning-unit which is equipped to alter an optical-beam-path, that starts from one of the optical-transceivers, so that in each instance, a second scanning-spot in the first field-of-view of the LIDAR sensor is sensed by the optical-transceivers, the first scanning-spots lying between the second scanning-spots.


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