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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.
Inventor: Angus Pacala , Mark Frichtl , Marvin Shu , Eric Younge
IPC: G01S17/89 , G01S17/42 , G01S7/486 , G01S7/481 , B60L3/00 , H01S5/14 , H02J7/02 , G01S7/4863 , G01S7/497 , G01S17/931 , G01S17/10 , H01F38/14 , H05K1/02 , H05K1/14 , H05K1/18 , H05K5/00 , H04B10/114 , G02B3/00 , H02J50/10 , G05D1/02 , H02K11/00
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.
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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.
Inventor: Angus Pacala , Mark Frichtl
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.
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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.
Inventor: Angus Pacala , Mark Frichtl , Marvin Shu , Eric Younge
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.
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公开(公告)号:US12146954B2
公开(公告)日:2024-11-19
申请号:US18347784
申请日:2023-07-06
Applicant: Ouster, Inc.
Inventor: Angus Pacala , Mark Frichtl
IPC: G01S17/00 , B81B5/00 , G01S7/481 , G01S7/4863 , G01S7/497 , G01S17/08 , G01S17/10 , G01S17/88 , G01S17/89 , G01S17/931 , G02B26/10 , G02B27/30 , G06V20/58 , H01L27/146 , H01L31/02 , G02B3/00 , G02B26/08 , H01L25/16 , H01S5/183 , H01S5/40
Abstract: Embodiments describe a solid state electronic scanning LIDAR system that includes a scanning focal plane transmitting element and a scanning focal plane receiving element whose operations are synchronized so that the firing sequence of an emitter array in the transmitting element corresponds to a capturing sequence of a photosensor array in the receiving element. During operation, the emitter array can sequentially fire one or more light emitters into a scene and the reflected light can be received by a corresponding set of one or more photosensors through an aperture layer positioned in front of the photosensors. Each light emitter can correspond with an aperture in the aperture layer, and each aperture can correspond to a photosensor in the receiving element such that each light emitter corresponds with a specific photosensor in the receiving element.
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公开(公告)号:US11726204B2
公开(公告)日:2023-08-15
申请号:US16593735
申请日:2019-10-04
Applicant: Ouster, Inc.
Inventor: Angus Pacala , Mark Frichtl
IPC: G01S17/08 , G01S17/89 , G01S7/497 , G01S7/481 , G01S17/10 , G01S7/4863 , B81B5/00 , G01S17/931 , G06V20/58 , H01L31/02 , G01S17/88 , G02B27/30 , H01L27/146 , G02B26/10 , G02B3/00 , G02B26/08 , H01L25/16 , H01S5/183 , H01S5/40
CPC classification number: G01S17/08 , B81B5/00 , G01S7/4815 , G01S7/4817 , G01S7/4863 , G01S7/497 , G01S17/10 , G01S17/88 , G01S17/89 , G01S17/931 , G02B26/10 , G02B27/30 , G06V20/58 , H01L27/14643 , H01L31/02027 , G02B3/0056 , G02B3/0068 , G02B26/08 , G02B26/105 , H01L25/167 , H01S5/183 , H01S5/4075
Abstract: Embodiments describe a solid state electronic scanning LIDAR system that includes a scanning focal plane transmitting element and a scanning focal plane receiving element whose operations are synchronized so that the firing sequence of an emitter array in the transmitting element corresponds to a capturing sequence of a photosensor array in the receiving element. During operation, the emitter array can sequentially fire one or more light emitters into a scene and the reflected light can be received by a corresponding set of one or more photosensors through an aperture layer positioned in front of the photosensors. Each light emitter can correspond with an aperture in the aperture layer, and each aperture can correspond to a photosensor in the receiving element such that each light emitter corresponds with a specific photosensor in the receiving element.
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公开(公告)号:US11473969B2
公开(公告)日:2022-10-18
申请号:US16534855
申请日:2019-08-07
Applicant: Ouster, Inc.
Inventor: Angus Pacala , Mark Frichtl
IPC: G01S7/48 , G01J1/42 , G01J3/51 , G01J3/02 , G01S17/89 , G01S7/481 , G01S17/86 , G01J3/46 , G01S17/931 , G01S7/4863 , G01S7/4865 , H01L31/02 , G01S17/88
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.
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公开(公告)号:US11340336B2
公开(公告)日:2022-05-24
申请号:US16209875
申请日:2018-12-04
Applicant: Ouster, Inc.
Inventor: Angus Pacala , Mark Frichtl , Marvin Shu , Eric Younge
IPC: G01S7/48 , G01S7/481 , G01S17/89 , G01S17/42 , G01S7/486 , B60L3/00 , H01S5/14 , H02J7/02 , G01S7/4863 , G01S7/497 , G01S17/931 , G01S17/10 , H01F38/14 , H05K1/02 , H05K1/14 , H05K1/18 , H05K5/00 , H04B10/114 , G02B3/00 , H02J50/10 , G05D1/02 , H02K11/00
Abstract: A light ranging system including a shaft having a longitudinal axis; a light ranging device configured to rotate about the longitudinal axis of the shaft, the light ranging device including a light source configured to transmit light pulses to objects in a surrounding environment, and detector circuitry configured 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; a base subsystem that does not rotate about the shaft; and an optical communications subsystem configured to provide an optical communications channel between the base subsystem and the light ranging device, the optical communications subsystem including one or more turret optical communication components connected to the detector circuitry and one or more base optical communication components connected to the base subsystem.
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公开(公告)号:US11300665B2
公开(公告)日:2022-04-12
申请号:US17323983
申请日:2021-05-18
Applicant: Ouster, Inc.
Inventor: Angus Pacala , Mark Frichtl , Marvin Shu , Eric Younge
IPC: G01S7/48 , G01S7/481 , G01S7/486 , G01S7/4863 , G01S7/497 , G01S17/10 , G01S17/42 , G01S17/89 , G01S17/931 , G02B3/00 , H01F38/14 , H01S5/14 , H04B10/114 , H05K1/02 , H05K1/14 , H05K1/18 , H05K5/00 , B60L3/00 , H02J50/10 , G05D1/02 , H02K11/00
Abstract: A light ranging system including a shaft; a first circuit board assembly that includes a stator assembly comprising a plurality of stator elements arranged about the shaft on a surface of the first circuit board assembly; a second circuit board assembly rotationally coupled to the shaft, wherein the second circuit board assembly includes a rotor assembly comprising a plurality of rotor elements arranged about the shaft on a surface of the second circuit board assembly such that the plurality of rotor elements are aligned with and spaced apart from the plurality of stator elements; a stator driver circuit disposed on either the second or the first circuit board assemblies and configured to provide a drive signal to the plurality of stator elements, thereby imparting an electromagnetic force on the plurality of rotor elements to drive a rotation of the second circuit board assembly about the shaft; and a light ranging device mechanically coupled to the second circuit board assembly such that the light ranging device rotates with the second circuit board assembly.
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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.
Inventor: Angus Pacala , Mark Frichtl
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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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.
Inventor: Angus Pacala , Mark Frichtl
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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