Patent ID: 11892572
Assignee: WAYMO LLC
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. A method comprising:
causing a light-emitter device to emit a light beam toward an environment along a transmit axis via a micromirror device, wherein the light-emitter device comprises light-emitter devices arranged in a 1-dimensional array, wherein the light-emitter devices are disposed along a shared light-emitter axis, and wherein the micromirror device comprises a plurality of micromirror devices arranged in a 1-dimensional array, wherein the micromirror devices are disposed along a shared micromirror axis, wherein the shared light-emitter axis and the shared micromirror axis are parallel, and wherein the micromirror device is configured to deflect the light beam;
receiving information indicative of a retroreflector object in the environment; and
based on the received information, causing at least one micromirror device of the plurality of micromirror devices to deflect the light beam so that the light beam does not interact with the retroreflector object.