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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2020
Guangzhou Woya Laideling Technology Co. Ltd., Guangdong Province, CN;
Yue Lu, Mountain View, CA (US);
Vipul Chawla, Mountain View, CA (US);
Youmin Wang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Guangzhou Woya Laideling Technology Co., Ltd., Guangdong Province, CN;
Abstract
In one example, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus is part of a Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) module of a vehicle and comprises: a receiver circuit including a photodiode and an amplifier circuit; and a controller configured to: obtain information of an operation condition of the LiDAR module; based on the information, set a multiplication ratio by which the photodiode converts incident light to a photocurrent; obtain, from the amplifier circuit, an output signal based on the photocurrent; and perform a ranging operation based on the output signal.