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Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2022

Filed:

Sep. 23, 2021
Applicant:

Aeye, Inc., Dublin, CA (US);

Inventors:

Philippe Feru, Dublin, CA (US);

Luis Dussan, Dublin, CA (US);

Joel Benscoter, Dublin, CA (US);

Alex Liang, Dublin, CA (US);

Igor Polishchuk, Dublin, CA (US);

Allan Steinhardt, Dublin, CA (US);

Assignee:

AEYE, Inc., Dublin, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/481 (2006.01); G01S 7/484 (2006.01); G01S 17/10 (2020.01); G01S 17/931 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/4817 (2013.01); G01S 7/484 (2013.01); G01S 7/4814 (2013.01); G01S 17/10 (2013.01); G01S 17/931 (2020.01);
Abstract

A lidar system that includes a laser source and a scannable mirror can be controlled to schedule the firing of laser pulse shots at range points in a field of view. A first mirror motion model can be used to govern the scheduling of the laser pulse shots, and a second mirror motion model can be used to govern when firing commands are to be generated for the scheduled laser pulse shots. The first and second mirror motion models model motion of the scannable mirror over time. A system controller can use the first mirror motion model as a coarse mirror motion model for the purpose of shot scheduling, while a beam scanner controller can use the second mirror motion model as a fine mirror motion model for the purposes of generating firing commands for the laser source.


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