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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2022
Continental Autonomous Mobility Us, Llc, Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Patrick B. Gilliland, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Chunbai Wu, Camarillo, CA (US);
Continental Autonomous Mobility US, LLC, Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Abstract
A LADAR sensor includes a light emitter, a lens having areas of different refraction, a beam-steering device, and a light sensor. The beam-steering device is between the light emitter and the lens to direct light from the light emitter through the lens. The beam-steering device is designed to scan the aim of light from the light emitter to different ones of the areas of different refraction. The light sensor has a plurality of photodetectors. A controller is programmed to selectively power different combinations of the photodetectors based on the aim of the beam-steering device at the areas of different refraction.