Abstract: A method for scanning solid angles is provided using at least two electromagnetic beams, at least one electromagnetic beam being generated that is subsequently deflected along a horizontal angle and/or along a vertical angle with the aid of a rotatable mirror; the solid angles being scanned using the at least one electromagnetic beam; and at least one reflected electromagnetic beam being received, after being reflected off an object, by a receiving optics that is pivotable along the horizontal angle synchronously with the mirror. Furthermore, a LIDAR device for carrying out the method is provided.

Abstract: A battery sensor data transmission unit is described as including a data transmission unit, which is designed to output a sensor signal, which represents a physical variable in or at the battery cell to an evaluation device, using a battery housing wall and/or a wall of a battery cell as the transmission medium.

Abstract: A method for detecting objects using a LIDAR system. The method includes emitting a first light beam scanning in a scanning direction in an emission direction at a first instant, allocating a first propagation time between the first transmission instant and a first receiving instant of a first reflection of the first light beam to the emission direction, emitting in the emission direction, an angle-resolved, further light beam scanning in the scanning direction and angularly offset from the first light beam, at a second transmission instant following the first emission instant, allocating a second propagation time between the second transmission instant and a second receiving instant of a second reflection of the second light beam to the emission direction, and evaluating hits using the propagation times allocated to the emission direction.

Abstract: A method for scanning a scan angle, in which at least one electromagnetic beam is generated, the at least one electromagnetic beam is deflected along the scan angle, and the at least one electromagnetic beam, reflected at an object, is received and detected, wherein after at least one first electromagnetic beam, at least one second electromagnetic beam is generated and the second electromagnetic beam is generated with a lower energy than the first electromagnetic beam. A LIDAR device is also disclosed.

Abstract: A LIDAR sensor for detecting an object in the surroundings and a method of the LIDAR sensor includes a light source emitting electromagnetic radiation, a micromechanical deflection mirror deflecting the emitted electromagnetic radiation by at least one angle into the surroundings, and a mirror, which includes an aperture situated on a main beam axis of the light source, deflecting onto an optical receiver received electromagnetic radiation that has been reflected from the object.

Abstract: A lidar sensor for detecting an object in the surrounding area, and a method for activating the lidar sensor, the lidar sensor including: a light source for emitting electromagnetic radiation; a deflection mirror for deflecting the emitted electromagnetic radiation, as deflected emitted electromagnetic radiation, through at least one angle into the surrounding area; and an optical receiver for receiving electromagnetic radiation that has been reflected from the object. The optical receiver has an aperture region disposed on a main beam axis of the light source.

Abstract: The invention relates to a monitoring device (1) of a LIDAR system (2), including a detector (5) for detecting laser light and for generating a reference signal (100) from the laser light, and a control loop (6) for minimizing a difference between an amplitude of the reference signal (100) and an amplitude of an actuating signal (200) by varying the actuating signal (200).

Abstract: A time-to-digital converter includes a self-calibrating, n-stage chain of a number n of gate delay elements connected in parallel and series between a clock signal line for supplying a clock signal and a stop signal line for supplying a stop signal; and a charge-pump and phase-detector unit for the feedback control of the gate delay elements, having a first input as a controlled-variable input, a second input as a reference-variable input, and an output as a correcting-variable output. The clock signal line is connected to the first input of the charge-pump and phase-detector unit, a push-pull line for supplying a push-pull signal is connected to the second input, and, for feedback, the gate delay elements are connected to the output of the charge-pump and phase-detector unit.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for processing at least one data packet (78, 156) which comprises a first header (82, 158) and a payload (100, 160), wherein the first header (82, 158) is processed by a first mode and the payload (100, 160) is processed by a second mode, wherein a number of processing steps (172, 174) for carrying out the second mode is greater than a number of processing steps (168, 170) for carrying out the first mode, the two modes being performed separately from one another.

Abstract: An optical set-up for a LiDAR system for the optical detection of a field of view, in particular for an operating device or for a vehicle, including an optical receiver system configured in segmented fashion having a—particularly uneven—plurality of optically projecting segments, in which the optically projecting segments of the optical receiver system are situated side by side.

Abstract: A quantum random number generator is described as having a first single-photon detector that detects a first event, and a second single-photon detector that detects a second event, and as having an electronic circuit by way of which the first single-photon detector and the second single-photon detector are interconnected in such a way that after detection of the first event the latter is outputted and an output of a detected second event is suppressed.

Abstract: An optical set-up for a LiDAR system for the optical detection of a field of view, in particular for an operating device, a vehicle or the like, in which an optical receiver system and an optical transmitter system are designed at least on the field of view side having essentially coaxial optical axes and have a common optical deflection system, and on the detector side an optical detector system is designed and has an arrangement for directing incident light—in particular from the field of view—directly via the optical deflection system onto a detector device.

Abstract: A module for measuring an object located in a position finding zone; the module being configured for generating a primary beam; the module having a scanning mirror structure; the scanning mirror structure being controllable to allow the primary beam to execute a scanning movement within the position finding zone; the module being configured to allow a secondary signal to be detected when the secondary signal is produced in response to the interaction of the primary beam with the object in a deflection position of the scanning mirror structure; the module being configured to generate position finding information as a function of the deflection position of the scanning mirror structure; the module featuring a semiconductor laser component; the semiconductor laser component being configured for producing the primary beam and for detecting the secondary signal.

Abstract: A LiDAR system and a method for ascertaining a system state of a LiDAR system, includes an optical source, a mirror, a partially transparent element, a detector array and an evaluation unit. The optical elements of the LiDAR system are arranged so that a component of the light beam is reflected by the partially transparent element onto the detector array. The evaluation unit is configured to receive a detector signal from the detector array, which describes a dimension, shape and/or position of the second component of the light beam projected on the detector array, and to ascertain from the detector signal a system state of the LiDAR system.

Abstract: A lidar sensor, especially for motor vehicles, having a light source, a movable deflection mirror for producing a scanning beam that sweeps across a monitored space by deflecting a light beam emitted by the light source, and having an optical receiver for detecting light reflected by an object hit by the scanning beam in the monitored space. The light source and the deflection mirror are adapted for using the deflected light beam to scan an array of micro-optical elements, each of which, in response to being impinged upon by this light beam, widens it into a divergent beam; and, configured at a distance from the array of micro-optical elements, is a light-concentrating element that transforms the divergent beam into a beam which forms the scanning beam and whose beam diameter is larger than that of the deflected beam.

Abstract: A method for transmitting first and second data between subscriber stations of a bus system via a first channel jointly used by a plurality of subscriber stations and via a second channel of the bus system, used in addition to the first channel by a plurality of subscriber stations, the first channel using the access method and transmission protocol of the CAN specification or the extension thereof, the TTCAN specification, the access to the second channel being controlled according to an arbitrary access method, and first data to be transmitted via the first channel and second data to be transmitted via the second channel being transmitted via a joint signal line, and a data signal being formed as a function of the first data, and a modulation signal being formed as a function of the first and second data, and the modulation signal being superposed on the data signal.

Abstract: A particle sensor apparatus having an optical emitter device that is configured to emit an optical radiation so that a volume having at least one particle possibly present therein is at least partly illuminatable; an optical detector device having at least one detection surface that is struck by at least a portion of the optical radiation scattered at the at least one particle, at least one information signal regarding an intensity and/or an intensity distribution of the optical radiation striking the at least one detection surface being outputtable; and an evaluation device with which an information item regarding a presence of particles, a number of particles, a particle density, and/or at least one property of particles is identifiable and outputtable, the particle sensor apparatus also encompassing at least one lens element that is disposed so that the emitted optical radiation is focusable onto a focus region inside the volume.

Abstract: A battery sensor data transmission unit is described as including a connection state ascertainment unit for ascertaining a series connection state in which a battery cell is connected in series to one other battery cell with the aid of a power transmission line and/or for determining a bypassing state in which at least one pole of the battery cell is decoupled from at least one other battery cell. Furthermore, the battery sensor data transmission unit includes a data transmission unit designed for outputting a sensor signal, which represents a physical variable in or at the battery cell, in the series connection state to an evaluation device using the power transmission line and/or outputting the sensor signal in the bypassing state to the evaluation device using a battery housing wall as the transmission medium.

Abstract: An object recognition device having a VCSEL Doppler sensor and an MEMS scanner; the MEMS scanner having at least one deflectable MEMS mirror for scanning an angular region using a laser beam from the VCSEL Doppler sensor; the VCSEL Doppler sensor being connected to a Doppler control and evaluation element that is adapted for determining the velocity and/or the distance of an object.

Abstract: A module for measuring an object located in a position finding zone; the module being configured for generating a primary beam; the module having a scanning mirror structure; the scanning mirror structure being controllable to allow the primary beam to execute a scanning movement within the position finding zone; the module being configured to allow a secondary signal to be detected when the secondary signal is produced in response to the interaction of the primary beam with the object in a deflection position of the scanning mirror structure; the module being configured to generate position finding information as a function of the deflection position of the scanning mirror structure; the module featuring a semiconductor laser component; the semiconductor laser component being configured for producing the primary beam and for detecting the secondary signal.