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Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2026

Filed:

Dec. 21, 2023
Applicant:

Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany Gmbh, Ingolstadt, DE;

Inventor:

Markus Wintermantel, Lindau, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/493 (2006.01); G01S 7/4912 (2020.01); G01S 7/4914 (2020.01); G01S 17/931 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/493 (2013.01); G01S 7/4914 (2013.01); G01S 7/4917 (2013.01); G01S 17/931 (2020.01);
Abstract

A coherent lidar system for capturing the surroundings is configured to emit a phase-modulated signal with pseudo-random change over discrete phase values. The system receives the signals reflected back from objects and converts the signals into a low-frequency signal by mixing and digitizing. The system includes a digital signal processing for correlation filtering of the low-frequency received signal. At least a part of the two-dimensional correlation filter is realized by a hardwired digital circuit embodied as a pipeline, wherein multiple or all of the output values are determined per clock frequency of the digital circuit in one of the two dimensions, and over a sequence of clock frequencies in the other dimension.


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