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公开(公告)号:US20240361464A1
公开(公告)日:2024-10-31
申请号:US18767123
申请日:2024-07-09
Applicant: Aurora Operations, Inc.
Inventor: Zeb Barber , Stephen Crouch , Emil Kadlec
IPC: G01S17/931 , G01S7/481 , G01S7/4912 , G01S17/34
CPC classification number: G01S17/931 , G01S7/4814 , G01S7/4912 , G01S17/34
Abstract: A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system for a vehicle, includes a laser source configured to generate light signals, a transceiver, and a fiber array coupled to the transceiver and including a plurality of output channels. The transceiver is configured to receive one or more light signals from the laser source through a first group of output channels of the fiber array, receive one or more local oscillator (LO) signals through a second group of output channels of the fiber array, transmit the one or more light signals into an environment of the vehicle, receive a first returned light reflected from one or more objects in the environment, and output the first returned light and a first LO signal of the one or more LO signals.
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公开(公告)号:US12287409B2
公开(公告)日:2025-04-29
申请号:US18514635
申请日:2023-11-20
Applicant: Aurora Operations, Inc.
Inventor: Zeb Barber , Stephen Crouch , Emil Kadlec
IPC: G01S17/931 , G01S7/481 , G01S7/4912 , G01S17/34 , G05D1/00 , G05D1/228 , G05D1/65
Abstract: A system and method for combining multiple functions of a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system includes receiving a second optical beam generated by the laser source or a second laser source, wherein the second optical beam is associated with a second local oscillator (LO); splitting the second optical beam into a third split optical beam and a fourth split optical beam; transmitting, to the optical device, the third split optical beam and the fourth split optical beam; receiving, from the optical device, a third reflected beam that is associated with the third split optical beam and a fourth reflected beam that is associated with the fourth split optical beam; and pairing the third reflected beam with the second LO signal and the fourth reflected beam with the second LO signal.
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公开(公告)号:US12066548B2
公开(公告)日:2024-08-20
申请号:US17674537
申请日:2022-02-17
Applicant: Aurora Operations, Inc.
Inventor: Zeb Barber , Stephen Crouch , Emil Kadlec
IPC: G01S17/931 , G01S7/481 , G01S7/4912 , G01S17/34 , G05D1/00
CPC classification number: G01S17/931 , G01S7/4814 , G01S7/4912 , G01S17/34 , G05D1/0088 , G05D1/0223
Abstract: A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system for a vehicle, includes a laser source configured to generate light signals, a transceiver, and a fiber array coupled to the transceiver and including a plurality of output channels. The transceiver is configured to receive one or more light signals from the laser source through a first group of output channels of the fiber array, receive one or more local oscillator (LO) signals through a second group of output channels of the fiber array, transmit the one or more light signals into an environment of the vehicle, receive a first returned light reflected from one or more objects in the environment, and output the first returned light and a first LO signal of the one or more LO signals.
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公开(公告)号:US12032092B2
公开(公告)日:2024-07-09
申请号:US18084492
申请日:2022-12-19
Applicant: Aurora Operations, Inc.
Inventor: Chunshu Li , Stephen Crouch
CPC classification number: G01S7/35 , B60W60/001 , G01S7/356 , G01S7/4056 , G01S13/347 , G01S13/505 , G01S13/52 , G01S13/58 , G01S13/584 , G01S13/931 , B60W2420/408
Abstract: A vehicle radar sensor utilizes Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar signals that incorporate non-uniform FMCW chirps having chirp profiles that differ from one another to sense one or more parameters of one or more objects in a field of view of the radar sensor. The chirp profiles may differ from one another in various manners, e.g., based on starting frequency, repetition interval, duration and/or slope, and among other advantages, may be used to enhance sensing of various parameters such as range, Doppler/velocity and/or angle.
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公开(公告)号:US20250044408A1
公开(公告)日:2025-02-06
申请号:US18767794
申请日:2024-07-09
Applicant: Aurora Operations, Inc.
Inventor: Chunshu Li , Stephen Crouch
Abstract: A vehicle radar sensor utilizes Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar signals that incorporate non-uniform FMCW chirps having chirp profiles that differ from one another to sense one or more parameters of one or more objects in a field of view of the radar sensor. The chirp profiles may differ from one another in various manners, e.g., based on starting frequency, repetition interval, duration and/or slope, and among other advantages, may be used to enhance sensing of various parameters such as range, Doppler/velocity and/or angle.
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公开(公告)号:US20240377541A1
公开(公告)日:2024-11-14
申请号:US18779906
申请日:2024-07-22
Applicant: Aurora Operations, Inc.
Inventor: Stephen Crouch , Chunshu Li
IPC: G01S17/931 , G01S13/58 , G01S17/89
Abstract: A multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radar sensor encodes or decodes radar signals generated by multiple MIMO transmitters using a mixture of sub-set digital codes that discriminate between different sub-sets of MIMO transmitters and Doppler-division codes that discriminate between different MIMO transmitters within each of the sub-sets.
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公开(公告)号:US11921219B2
公开(公告)日:2024-03-05
申请号:US18160836
申请日:2023-01-27
Applicant: Aurora Operations, Inc
Inventor: Zeb Barber , Stephen Crouch , Emil Kadlec
IPC: G01S17/931 , G01S7/481 , G01S7/4912 , G01S17/34 , G05D1/00 , G05D1/02
CPC classification number: G01S17/931 , G01S7/4814 , G01S7/4912 , G01S17/34 , G05D1/0088 , G05D1/0223 , G05D2201/0213
Abstract: A system and method for combining multiple functions of a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system includes receiving a second optical beam generated by the laser source or a second laser source, wherein the second optical beam is associated with a second local oscillator (LO); splitting the second optical beam into a third split optical beam and a fourth split optical beam; transmitting, to the optical device, the third split optical beam and the fourth split optical beam; receiving, from the optical device, a third reflected beam that is associated with the third split optical beam and a fourth reflected beam that is associated with the fourth split optical beam; and pairing the third reflected beam with the second LO signal and the fourth reflected beam with the second LO signal.
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公开(公告)号:US11536801B1
公开(公告)日:2022-12-27
申请号:US17512521
申请日:2021-10-27
Applicant: Aurora Operations, Inc.
Inventor: Chunshu Li , Stephen Crouch
IPC: G01S7/35 , G01S13/34 , B60W60/00 , G01S13/931 , G01S7/40
Abstract: A vehicle radar sensor utilizes Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar signals that incorporate non-uniform FMCW chirps having chirp profiles that differ from one another to sense one or more parameters of one or more objects in a field of view of the radar sensor. The chirp profiles may differ from one another in various manners, e.g., based on starting frequency, repetition interval, duration and/or slope, and among other advantages, may be used to enhance sensing of various parameters such as range, Doppler/velocity and/or angle.
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公开(公告)号:US20220381878A1
公开(公告)日:2022-12-01
申请号:US17684952
申请日:2022-03-02
Applicant: Aurora Operations, Inc.
Inventor: Stephen Crouch , Chunshu Li
IPC: G01S7/35 , G01S13/931 , G01S13/36
Abstract: Time-division quadrature sampling may be used in a pulse-modulated continuous wave (PMCW) radar receiver circuit, e.g., as may be employed in various types of radar sensors used in automotive and other applications, to enable a quadrature sampling circuit to sequence between digitally sampling different complex components of a received radar signal at different times.
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公开(公告)号:US11988770B2
公开(公告)日:2024-05-21
申请号:US17684952
申请日:2022-03-02
Applicant: Aurora Operations, Inc.
Inventor: Stephen Crouch , Chunshu Li
IPC: G01S7/35 , G01S13/36 , G01S13/58 , G01S13/931
CPC classification number: G01S7/358 , G01S13/36 , G01S13/583 , G01S13/931
Abstract: Time-division quadrature sampling may be used in a pulse-modulated continuous wave (PMCW) radar receiver circuit, e.g., as may be employed in various types of radar sensors used in automotive and other applications, to enable a quadrature sampling circuit to sequence between digitally sampling different complex components of a received radar signal at different times.
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