Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Current-domain analog frontend for intensity modulated direct time-of-flight LIDARs
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Application No.: US16698577Application Date: 2019-11-27
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Publication No.: US11550041B2Publication Date: 2023-01-10
- Inventor: Sayyed Mahdi Kashmiri
- Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
- Applicant Address: DE Stuttgart
- Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
- Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
- Current Assignee Address: DE Stuttgart
- Agency: Dickinson Wright PLLC
- Main IPC: H03F3/08
- IPC: H03F3/08 ; G01S7/4861 ; H03F3/21 ; H03F1/02 ; H03F1/34 ; G01S17/08

Abstract:
A circuit for filtering a signal corresponding to a time of flight (TOF) of light from a laser reflected off an object to a photo detector, the circuit includes a preamplifier, a DC cancelation loop, and an AC cancelation loop. The preamplifier may be configured to receive the signal from the photo detector corresponding to an output of the laser reflected off an object remote from the laser and photo detector. The DC cancelation loop includes a current feedback DC servo loop. The AC cancelation loop includes a feedback network driven by a floating class AB output stage, and the preamplifier configured to drive the floating class AB output stage, wherein the preamplifier is driven by an error signal of the feedback network and creates an AC signal path with the feedback network and floating class AB output stage.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210156974A1 CURRENT-DOMAIN ANALOG FRONTEND FOR INTENSITY MODULATED DIRECT TIME-OF-FLIGHT LIDARS Public/Granted day:2021-05-27
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