Patent ID: 11876557
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. An optical sensor system, comprising:
a set of one or more optical transmitters;
a set of optical receivers distributed between a set of optical sensing banks, each optical sensing bank in the set of optical sensing banks including a respective different subset of optical receivers in the set of optical receivers;
an optical transmitter controller configured to,
enable, at any given time, at least one optical transmitter in the set of one or more optical transmitters, the at least one optical transmitter associated with an optical sensing bank in the set of optical sensing banks; and
operate the enabled at least one optical transmitter in accordance with a next pulse repetition interval (PRI); and

an optical receiver controller configured to,
enable, at any given time, a subset of optical receivers associated with the optical sensing bank; and
provide to the optical transmitter controller, a first set of indications of the next PRI, and a second set of indications of when to use each next PRI.