US Patent Issued on June 9 for "LIDAR with adaptive laser point density" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,513, issued on June 9.

"LIDAR with adaptive laser point density" was invented by James Thomas O'Keeffe (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LIDAR may be configured to scan a field of view (FOV) with non-uniform density, based on previous scans of the FOV. However reconfiguring a LIDAR during an ongoing scan of a FOV to perform a dense scan of an object, poses additional challenges (e.g. completing the scan of the whole FOV within the original timeframe). Within embodiments, a LIDAR that is originally configured to scan a FOV can be reconfigured during the scan, in response to detecting an object, to thereby investig...