Patent ID: 11860314
Assignee: BIG SKY FINANCIAL CORPORATION
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A LiDAR (light detection and ranging) system comprising:
an emitter that emits a series of emitted light packets over a field of view, each emitted light packet emitted for a cycle duration;
a detector array having an array of detectors configured to cover the field of view and sample an incoming retroreflected signal portion of an emitted light packet at a pre-determined sampling frequency that generates at least two samples corresponding to the cycle duration of the emitted light packet that are stored in a frame buffer; and
a processing system configured to analyze the samples from the detector array and detect any objects and any attenuating mediums within the field of view using at least a volumetric analysis of the at least two samples from each detector in the array of detectors corresponding to the incoming retroreflected signal portion of each emitted light packet and reconstruct the reflected light energy based on an intensity value, adapted to reflect the efficiency of any attenuating medium, for each detector in the detector array for a given cycle, wherein the volumetric analysis includes an analysis of the frame buffer that is performed for multiple samples within that frame buffer such that there are multiple periodic samples evaluated and an efficiency of any attenuating mediums is estimated.