Light ranging system with opposing circuit boards

    公开(公告)号:US10830892B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-11-10

    申请号:US16209869

    申请日:2018-12-04

    Applicant: Ouster, Inc.

    Abstract: A light ranging system including a housing; a shaft defining an axis of rotation; a first circuit board assembly disposed within and coupled to the housing in a fixed relationship such that the first circuit board assembly is aligned along a first plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation, the first circuit board assembly including a plurality of first circuit elements disposed on a first circuit board; a second circuit board assembly spaced apart from the first circuit board assembly within the housing in a second plane parallel to the first plane and rotationally coupled to the shaft such that the second circuit board assembly rotates about the axis of rotation, the second circuit board assembly including a plurality of second circuit elements disposed on a second circuit board and aligned with and configured to function in wireless cooperation with at least one of the first plurality of circuit elements; and a light ranging device electrically connected to and coupled to rotate with the second circuit board assembly, the light ranging device configured to transmit light pulses to objects in a surrounding environment, to detect reflected portions of the light pulses that are reflected from the objects in the surrounding environment, and to compute ranging data based on the reflected portion of the light pulses.

    Multispectral ranging/imaging sensor arrays and systems

    公开(公告)号:US10739189B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-11

    申请号:US16534838

    申请日:2019-08-07

    Applicant: Ouster, Inc.

    Abstract: A multispectral sensor array can include a combination of ranging sensor channels (e.g., LIDAR sensor channels) and ambient-light sensor channels tuned to detect ambient light having a channel-specific property (e.g., color). The sensor channels can be arranged and spaced to provide multispectral images of a field of view in which the multispectral images from different sensors are inherently aligned with each other to define an array of multispectral image pixels. Various optical elements can be provided to facilitate imaging operations. Light ranging/imaging systems incorporating multispectral sensor arrays can operate in rotating and/or static modes.

    Optical system for collecting distance information within a field

    公开(公告)号:US10222458B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-05

    申请号:US15934613

    申请日:2018-03-23

    Applicant: Ouster, Inc.

    Abstract: Optical systems and methods for collecting distance information are disclosed. An example optical system includes a bulk receiving optic, a plurality of illumination sources, a pixel array comprising at least a first column of pixels and a second column of pixels, each pixel in the first column of pixels being offset from an adjacent pixel in the first column of pixels by a first pixel pitch, the second column of pixels being horizontally offset from the first column of pixels by the first pixel pitch, the second column of pixels being vertically offset from the first column of pixels by a first vertical pitch; and a set of input channels interposed between the bulk receiving optic and the pixel array.

    Optical imaging system with a plurality of sense channels

    公开(公告)号:US11190750B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-30

    申请号:US16046643

    申请日:2018-07-26

    Applicant: Ouster, Inc.

    Abstract: An optical system for collecting distance information within a field is provided. The optical system may include lenses for collecting photons from a field and may include lenses for distributing photons to a field. The optical system may include lenses that collimate photons passed by an aperture, optical filters that reject normally incident light outside of the operating wavelength, and pixels that detect incident photons. The optical system may further include illumination sources that output photons at an operating wavelength.

    OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING DISTANCE INFORMATION WITHIN A FIELD

    公开(公告)号:US20210306609A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-30

    申请号:US17317809

    申请日:2021-05-11

    Applicant: Ouster, Inc.

    Abstract: An optical system for collecting distance information within a field is provided. The optical system may include lenses for collecting photons from a field and may include lenses for distributing photons to a field. The optical system may include lenses that collimate photons passed by an aperture, optical filters that reject normally incident light outside of the operating wavelength, and pixels that detect incident photons. The optical system may further include illumination sources that output photons at an operating wavelength.

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