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    • 7. 发明公开
    • ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION MANAGEMENT FOR MULTIPLE RECEIVER CHANNELS IN COHERENT MECHANICAL LIDAR
    • EP4400863A1
    • 2024-07-17
    • EP24151258.1
    • 2024-01-10
    • Luminar Technologies, Inc.
    • KLEMME, Daniel JosephMOHR, Daniel Aaron
    • G01S7/481G01S7/4863G01S17/89
    • G01S17/89G01S7/4816G01S7/4863
    • A LiDAR system (400) includes a light source (410) to generate light pulses, a mechanical scanner (402), a detector (414) including an array of discrete detector channels to convert light input into electrical signals, a lens (412) that focuses both light pulses generated at the light source onto the mechanical scanner and returning light (432) reflected from the mechanical scanner for reception in sequence by the detector channels, a first analog to digital converter, ADC (454), connected to each of the detector channels in the array and to convert the electrical signals from the detector channels into digital data signals, and a signal processor (456) coupled to the ADC to receive the digital data signals therefrom and to generate images of targets in a field of view of the LiDAR system from the digital data signals. The LiDAR system counteracts the effect of angle offset on detection induced by the rotating scanning mirror. Moreover, the lens transforms the reflection angle offset into a positional offset on the detector face. This positional offset becomes larger as the range to a target increases and cannot be tolerated. A fast-scanning mechanical LiDAR system may use a switch architecture to reduce the required number of ADC channels while overcoming angle lag. For example, if two laser pulses are emitted such that returning light may overlap on the detector due to the angle lag, two pairs of ADC channels may be used to detect returning light on two pairs of adjacent receive channels simultaneously.