Patents by Inventor Lyle Edward ROBERTS

Lyle Edward ROBERTS 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).

  • Publication number: 20250116763
    Abstract: A LiDAR apparatus, including: a laser to generate an optical signal; modulation components configured to receive the optical signal as an input and to output at least two corresponding modulated optical signals at respective output ports, wherein each modulated optical signal is modulated by a corresponding pseudo-random bit sequence, and: (i) the optical signals have respective different delays such that the modulations do not overlap in time; or (ii) the pseudo-random bit sequences have low cross-correlation; for each of the at least two modulated optical signals, a corresponding optical transmitter configured to transmit the corresponding modulated optical signal towards a corresponding surface spaced from the LiDAR apparatus by a corresponding distance, and a corresponding optical receiver configured to receive a portion of the transmitted optical signal scattered and/or reflected by the surface, the received portion of the optical signal having a phase shift and/or Doppler shifted angular frequency due t
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: James Thomas SPOLLARD, Lyle Edward ROBERTS, Callum Scott SAMBRIDGE
  • Publication number: 20230037235
    Abstract: A LiDAR process executed by a signal processing component of a LiDAR apparatus, including: receiving LiDAR signal data representing a signal received at an optical receiver of a LiDAR apparatus and including a scattered and/or reflected portion of an optical signal transmitted by an optical transmitter of the LiDAR apparatus and encoded with a known digital signal, the scattered and/or reflected portion of the transmitted optical signal having been scattered and/or reflected from an object spaced from the LiDAR apparatus by a distance, and having a Doppler shifted angular frequency due to radial motion of the object relative to the LiDAR apparatus; processing the LiDAR signal data to generate corresponding frequency compensated signal data representing a frequency compensated signal corresponding to the received signal, but in which the Doppler shifted angular frequency has been removed and the known digital signal is encoded into the amplitude of the frequency compensated signal; and correlating the frequenc
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: VAI PHOTONICS PTY LTD
    Inventors: Lyle Edward ROBERTS, James Thomas SPOLLARD