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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2026
Filed:
May. 21, 2021
Applicant:
Beijing Voyager Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing, CN;
Inventors:
Qin Zhou, Mountain View, CA (US);
Youmin Wang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Beijing Voyager Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing, CN;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/4863 (2020.01); G01S 17/931 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/4863 (2013.01); G01S 17/931 (2020.01);
Abstract
A photodetector is made sufficiently large to receive an entire designed field of view (e.g., for a LiDAR system). At least one lens is mounted to direct reflected laser beams to the photodetector. A plurality of electrodes (e.g., 16, 32 or 64) are coupled to the photodetector, each electrode corresponding to a different pixel position. A processor is coupled to the plurality of electrodes and the processor is configured to detect a pixel position of a reflected laser beam by detecting which electrode produces the largest digital signal.