Patent ID: 11933898
Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  Y | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. An imaging system for a vehicle, comprising:
a light source that generates transmitted light that passes across a transmission optical path and defines a field of view encompassing target objects within the transmitted light;
at least one sensor within a return optical path of reflected light from at least a portion of one of the target objects;
an optical assembly positioned within the transmission optical path and configured for dynamically adjusting the transmitted light and the field of view in response to the reflected light received at the sensor;
a computer connected to the light source, the sensor, and the optical assembly, wherein the computer comprises a processor and computerized memory running software stored in the memory, wherein the software is configured to:
use the processor to compile an image from a series of data outputs from the sensor;
determine a region of interest within the image; and
dynamically adjust the transmitted light source to change the field of view and/or the light intensity distribution within the beam of the light source such that successive received images have a higher image resolution and/or return signal level for the region of interest.