Patent ID: 9354318
Filing Date: 2016-05-31
CPC Classification: B60W,G01S

Claim Text:
1. A system comprising: a light emitter configured to emit a light signal; a line-image sensor configured to receive reflected light signals at a plurality of positions along the line-image sensor; and a controller communicatively coupled to the light emitter and the line-image sensor, the controller being configured to determine whether a given reflected light signal received at the line-image sensor is a multi-path signal based on (i) an amount of time between emission of the light signal from the light emitter and reception at the line-image sensor of the given reflected light signal, and (ii) a position along the line-image sensor at which the line-image sensor received the given reflected light signal; wherein the controller is configured to determine that the given reflected light signal is a multi-path signal by: wherein the line-image sensor has a proximate end and a distal end, the light emitter being positioned nearer to the proximate end than the distal end, and wherein the target window of time is a length of time subsequent to emission of the light signal, the length of time being proportionate to a distance from the proximate end of the line-image sensor to the determined position along the line-image sensor at which the line-image sensor received the given reflected light signal.