Abstract: The present invention relates to a semiconductor package and to a LIDAR transmitting unit including such a semiconductor package. The semiconductor package has a surface-emitting laser, at least one driver circuit for the surface-emitting laser, a connecting structure and at least one interposer. The connecting structure includes a plurality of solder bumps. The surface-emitting laser is electrically connected to the at least one driver circuit via the at least one interposer and the connecting structure.

Abstract: Method for the improved near and remote detection of a LIDAR receiving unit for motor vehicles, wherein the receiving unit has a plurality of sensor elements, wherein the sensor elements can be activated and deactivated, wherein at least a subset of the sensor elements are activated at a first point in time within a measurement cycle, wherein one or more sensor elements are activated and/or one or more sensor elements are deactivated at a second point in time within the measurement cycle, said second point in time occurring after the first point in time.

Abstract: LIDAR receiving unit in a focal plane array assembly, including a plurality of sensor elements arranged in macro cells and a plurality of readout elements, wherein at least two sensor elements are assigned to a macro cell, and each sensor element can be activated and deactivated individually or can be activated and deactivated in groups of sensor elements.

Abstract: To provide a method for optical distance measurement, in particular by means of time-correlated single photon counting, in the case of which the memory requirement and the loss of integration cycles is reduced and the accuracy of the distance measurement is improved, a method for optical distance measurement, in particular by means of time-correlated single photon counting is proposed, wherein several optical measuring pulses are transmitted by at least one transmitter, wherein the optical measuring pulses are reflected on an object, wherein photons of the reflected optical measuring pulses are detected by at least one receiver, wherein a first distribution of times-of-flight of light of the detected photons is determined, wherein the first distribution of the times-of-flight of light is stored in a first memory area of a memory unit, wherein the first distribution of times-of-flight of light is assigned to time intervals of a first plurality of time intervals, wherein frequency portions of the first distribu

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for optical distance measurement which includes the steps of emitting measurement pulses by a transmission unit and receiving measurement pulses reflected by an object by a receiver unit to identify objects within a field of view of the receiver unit. A background signal is received by receiver elements and the intensity of the background signal is determined for each receiver element, wherein the determined intensities of the background signal are compared in order to identify objects not identified by the measurement within the field of view of the receiver unit. At least one region of minimal intensity of the background signal is established within an intensity image of the field of view of the receiver unit. The region of minimal intensity is assigned a masking in the field of view, the masking originating from an object not identified by the measurement.

Abstract: In order to improve the failure proneness of methods or devices for optically measuring distances, it is proposed that the measurement pulses for measuring distances are sent out aperiodically.