公开(公告)号：US20200003876A1

公开(公告)日：2020-01-02

申请号：US16488918

申请日：2018-02-20

Applicant: SRI International

Inventor： Peter Ferdinand ZALUD

IPC: G01S7/486 ,  G01S17/89 ,  G01S7/481 ,  G01S17/10 ,  G01L1/24

Abstract: A ROIC can perform systolic processing of light detectors. The ROIC performs the systolic processing of the light detectors to capture at least i) when, in time units, an initial photon of its reflected light pulse is captured by each of the light detectors in the array, ii) where geographically in terms of column and row address of the light detector capturing its photon is located in the array, iii) scan out data captured by the light detectors on the when in time units, and the where geographically that the photon was captured in a given light detector in the array, and then iv) analyze the data on the when and the where with an algorithm to know exactly when exactly, in terms of time units, the photon was captured relative to the input from the clock circuit in order to determine an objects characteristics.