Patents by Inventor RON SOKOLOVSKY

RON SOKOLOVSKY 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).

  • Adaptive transmission power control for a LIDAR
    Patent number: 10775507
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a laser, which is configured to emit toward a scene pulses of optical radiation. An array of detectors are configured to receive the optical radiation that is reflected from points in the scene and to output signals indicative of respective times of arrival of the received radiation. A controller is coupled to drive the laser to emit a sequence of pulses of the optical radiation toward each of a plurality of points in the scene and to find respective times of flight for the points responsively to the output signals, while controlling a power of the pulses emitted by the laser by counting a number of the detectors outputting the signals in response to each pulse, and reducing the power of a subsequent pulse in the sequence when the number is greater than a predefined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Shingo Mandai, Cristiano L Niclass, Richard E Bills, Moshe Laifenfeld, Mina A. Rezk, Alexander Shpunt, Ron Sokolovsky, Tal Kaitz, Ronen Akerman, Jason D. Mudge, Andrew J Sutton
  • Adaptive transmission power control for a LIDAR
    Publication number: 20180081061
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a laser, which is configured to emit toward a scene pulses of optical radiation. An array of detectors are configured to receive the optical radiation that is reflected from points in the scene and to output signals indicative of respective times of arrival of the received radiation. A controller is coupled to drive the laser to emit a sequence of pulses of the optical radiation toward each of a plurality of points in the scene and to find respective times of flight for the points responsively to the output signals, while controlling a power of the pulses emitted by the laser by counting a number of the detectors outputting the signals in response to each pulse, and reducing the power of a subsequent pulse in the sequence when the number is greater than a predefined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Shingo Mandai, Cristiano L. Niclass, Richard E. Bills, Moshe Laifenfeld, Mina A. Rezk, Alexander Shpunt, Ron Sokolovsky, Tal Kaitz, Ronen Akerman, Jason D. Mudge, Andrew J. Sutton
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING FIXTURES
    Publication number: 20170097685
    Abstract: A method for computer vision based control of a fixture including identifying in an image a user indicating at the fixture and based on the identification of a user indicating at the fixture causing a processor associated with the fixture to generate an identifying signal. The method may include causing a control device to assign the fixture to a group of fixtures based on the identifying signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: MEIR MORAG, ERAN EILAT, RON SOKOLOVSKY