US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Nov. 25 for "Low power LiDAR system with smart laser interrogration" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,040, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Low power LiDAR system with smart laser interrogration" was invented by Yibing Michelle Wang (Temple City, Calif.), Chunji Wang (Los Angeles), Kwang Oh Kim (Cerritos, Calif.) and Hongyu Wang (San Gabriel, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A direct time-of-flight (DTOF) LiDAR system includes a sensor array, a first gated time-to digital converter (TDC) circuit and second TDC circuit. The sensor array includes pixels arranged to detect a first disparity location on the sensor array of a reflection signal received from a first object at a first rang...