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Providing dynamic field of view for light received from a dynamic position

US12019189B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJan 24, 2018
Grant dateJun 25, 2024
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Expiry dateJan 17, 2041

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01S17/00
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A system and method for providing a dynamic composite field of view in a scanning lidar system, such as to improve a signal-to-noise ration of detected light. The dynamic composite field of view can include a subset of the available detector pixels, and can thereby reduce noise introduce by noise sources that can scale with a detector area, such as dark current and gain peaking that can be caused by a capacitance of the photodetector.

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