Patents by Inventor Don Alan Larson

Don Alan Larson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Multi-resolution, wide field-of-view, unmanned ground vehicle navigation sensor
    Patent number: 9239959
    Abstract: An imaging system includes: a transmit side that generates a plurality of switched beam laser signals and scans each of the switched beam laser signals into a respective field of view by two polygon facets simultaneously of a polygonal mirror, the respective fields of view overlapping in at least a portion thereof; and a receive side that receives a plurality of reflections of the laser signals, detects them, and captures them as three-dimensional imagery data. A method includes: generating a plurality of switched beam laser signals from a single laser signal; scanning each of the switched beam laser signals in seriatim into a respective field of view by each of two polygonal facets of a polygonal mirror, the respective fields of view overlapping in at least a portion thereof; receiving reflections of the switched beam laser signals; and generating a set of three-dimensional imagery from the received reflections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Bruno J Evans, William Dale Cotten, Don Alan Larson