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Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2023

Filed:

Mar. 08, 2021
Applicant:

Lg Innotek Co., Ltd., Seoul, KR;

Inventor:

Yahia Tachwali, Princeton, NJ (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 17/10 (2020.01); G06F 17/18 (2006.01); G01S 7/487 (2006.01); G01S 17/93 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 17/10 (2013.01); G01S 7/487 (2013.01); G01S 17/93 (2013.01); G06F 17/18 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems/methods for operating a LiDAR system. The methods comprise: receiving a waveform representing light which was reflected off of a surface of an object; generating timestamp values for photon detection events triggered by pulses in the waveform; generating a count histogram of the timestamp values; inferring a trials histogram from the count histogram (the trials histogram representing a number of times a photodetector of the LiDAR system was available during reception of the waveform); generating an estimated range distance from the LiDAR system to the at least one object and an estimated intensity value for a given pulse of the waveform, based on results from analyzing the count histogram and the trials histogram; determining a position using the estimated range distance from the LiDAR system to the at least one object; and producing a LiDAR dataset comprising a data point defined by the position and the estimated intensity value.


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