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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:
Nov. 01, 2022

Filed:

May. 17, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Guy M. Cohen, Westchester, NY (US);

Abram L. Falk, Port Chester, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 17/10 (2020.01); G01S 7/484 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/484 (2013.01); G01S 17/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

A light detection and ranging (LiDAR) system is provided. The LiDAR system includes an emitter for emitting a light beam, a configurable light processing control unit to affect the light beam, a receiver for receiving the light beam and a computer system. The computer system controls operations of the light processing control unit, computes a distance to a target using a time of flight of the light beam from the emitter to the target and from the target to the receiver and simultaneously corroborates the computed distance by controlling the operations of the light processing control unit to focus and defocus the light beam.


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