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Patent No.:

US 12761366 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2026

Filed:

Nov. 15, 2022

Lidar system with scene dependent focus intensity

Applicant:

Luminar Technologies, Inc., Orlando, FL (US);

Inventors:

Dominik Nuss, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Pranav Maheshwari, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Shubham C. Khilari, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Flavian Pegado, Mountain View, CA (US);

Benjamin Englard, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Manuel Birke, Los Altos, CA (US);

Assignee:

Microvision, Inc., Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:

Kevin D. Wills

Primary Examiner:

Isam A Alsomiri

Assistant Examiner:

Sanjida undefined Naser

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 17/931 (2020.01); G01S 7/481 (2006.01); G01S 7/497 (2006.01); G01S 17/89 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 17/931 (2020.01); G01S 7/4817 (2013.01); G01S 7/497 (2013.01); G01S 17/89 (2013.01);
Abstract

An imaging system is described for generating an estimate for the virtual horizon for a moving vehicle. The estimate of the virtual horizon can correspond to lower and higher boundaries of a region within the field of regard, such that the virtual horizon is between the lower and the higher boundaries, in cases where determination of the virtual horizon may be unreliable due to traffic, weather or other road conditions that obscure the visibility in front of the vehicle the imaging system may switch to a static vertical scan density pattern having a broad central focus, which can mitigate the possibility that the system focuses on an incorrect virtual horizon and fails to capture significant objects or conditions in the roadway.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Nuss, Dominik. (2026). Lidar system with scene dependent focus intensity (U.S. Patent No. 12761366). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12761366

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