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Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2023

Filed:

Jan. 16, 2020
Applicant:

Ibeo Automotive Systems Gmbh, Hamburg, DE;

Inventor:

Wolfgang Birnbacher, Hamburg, DE;

Assignee:

Microvision, Inc., Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/4865 (2020.01); G01S 7/4861 (2020.01); G01S 17/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/4865 (2013.01); G01S 7/4861 (2013.01); G01S 17/08 (2013.01); G01S 7/4866 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for optical distance measurement is suggested, wherein a first distribution of times-of-flight of light of detected photons of transmitted measurement pulses is determined, which is stored in a first memory area of a memory unit. The first distribution of times-of-flight of light is assigned to time intervals of a first plurality of time intervals and frequency portions of the first distribution above a predetermined cut-off frequency are reduced or suppressed by means of a low pass filter in a reduction step, so that a second distribution of times-of-flight of light is generated. The second distribution is assigned to time intervals of a second plurality of time intervals and the blocking frequency of the low pass filter is selected to be smaller than or equal to half of the reciprocal value of a smallest interval width of the second plurality of time intervals.


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