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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2020
Waymo Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Stephen Osborn, Redwood City, CA (US);
Blaise Gassend, East Palo Alto, CA (US);
Pierre-Yves Droz, Los Altos, CA (US);
Luke Wachter, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ionut Iordache, Mountain View, CA (US);
Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to light detection and ranging (LIDAR) devices and related methods of their use. An example LIDAR device includes a transmitter configured to transmit one or more light pulses into an environment of the LIDAR device via a transmit optical path. The LIDAR device also includes a detector configured to detect a first portion of the one or more transmitted light pulses and a second portion of the one or more transmitted light pulses, such that the detector receives at a first time the first portion of the one or more transmitted light pulses via an internal optical path within the LIDAR device and receives at a second time the second portion of the one or more transmitted light pulses via reflection by one or more objects in the environment of the LIDAR device. The second time occurs after the first time.
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