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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2019
Sense Photonics, Inc., Durham, NC (US);
Dietrich Dehlinger, San Francisco, CA (US);
Hod Finkelstein, Berkeley, CA (US);
Neil Woodhouse, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Brent Fisher, Bethesda, MD (US);
Sense Photonics, Inc., Durham, NC (US);
Abstract
A LIDAR apparatus includes an emitter array having a plurality of emitter pixels configured to emit optical signals, a detector array having a plurality of detector pixels configured to output detection signals responsive to light incident thereon, and a circuit that is coupled to the detector array. The circuit is configured to perform operations including receiving the detection signals output from the detector array, where each of the detection signals includes component measurements defining a respective phase vector, generating a combined vector based on the component measurements of a plurality of the detection signals, and identifying a distance range of a target from which the optical signals were reflected based on an angle of the combined vector. Related devices and methods of operation are also discussed.