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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2021
GM Cruise Holdings Llc, San Francisco, CA (US);
Hongen Tu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ryan Suess, Seattle, WA (US);
Min Wang, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Alexander Lesnick, Dublin, CA (US);
GM Cruise Holdings LLC, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the disclosed technology provide solutions for enabling vehicle-to-vehicle communications and in particular, for providing optical communication capabilities using Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensors. In some aspects, the disclosed technology encompasses solutions for utilizing LiDAR sensors to engage in Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communications. A LiDAR sensor of the disclosed technology can include a processing unit, an image-sensor coupled to the processing unit, and a first array of photodetectors coupled to the processing unit, wherein the first array of photodetectors is disposed in an optical field of the optical lens and coupled to a top-edge of the image sensor, and wherein an integration rate for light signals received by the first array of photodetectors is faster than an integration rate for light signals received by the image-sensor.