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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2017
Luminar Technologies, Inc., Orlando, FL (US);
Jason M. Eichenholz, Orlando, FL (US);
Austin K. Russell, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Scott R. Campbell, Sanford, FL (US);
Alain Villeneuve, Mont-Royal, CA;
Rodger W. Cleye, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Joseph G. LaChapelle, Philomath, OR (US);
Matthew D. Weed, Winter Park, FL (US);
Lane A. Martin, Orlando, FL (US);
Luminar Technologies, Inc., Orlando, FL (US);
Abstract
A lidar system having a light source to emit an output beam and an overlap mirror having a reflecting surface with an aperture through which the output beam passes. The lidar system may include mirrors driven by a galvanometer scanner, a resonant scanner, a microelectromechanical systems device, or a voice coil motor. The mirrors may direct the output beam toward a light source field of view (FOV) and may move the light source FOV to different locations within a field of regard. The mirrors may receive reflected portions of the output beam as an input beam and direct the input beam toward the reflecting surface of the overlap mirror. The lidar system may include a receiver to receive the input beam from the reflecting surface of the overlap mirror. The receiver may have a receiver FOV that moves synchronously with, and at least partially overlaps, the light source FOV.