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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2021
GM Cruise Holdings Llc, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shane Mcguire, Redwood City, CA (US);
GM Cruise Holdings LLC, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Various technologies described herein pertain to a SPAD lidar system that includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter is configured to transmit a transmitted electromagnetic signal into an environment nearby the SPAD lidar system, and the receiver is configured to receive a received electromagnetic signal from the environment nearby the SPAD lidar system. The receiver includes a SPAD sensor array (which includes SPAD pixels) and a binning system. The received electromagnetic signal is inputted to the SPAD pixels of the SPAD sensor array. The binning system is configured to combine outputs of groups of the SPAD pixels to generate combined outputs for the groups and assign the combined outputs to SPAD pixels in the groups, where the groups are overlapping. A processing system of the SPAD lidar system can generate lidar data based on the combined outputs.