Abstract: In an embodiment, a LIDAR system includes a detector having a plurality of detector pixels configured to detect a light signal, wherein the detector pixels are arranged in a two-dimensional array, a light emission system configured to emit a light signal into a field of view of the LIDAR system and one or more processors configured to associate a first detected light signal provided by a first set of detector pixels of the plurality of detector pixels with a direct reflection of the emitted light signal and associate a second detected light signal provided by a second different set of detector pixels of the plurality of detector pixels with a light signal other than the direct reflection of the emitted light signal, wherein the one or more processors are configured to associate the second detected light signal with a light signal from an external emitter located outside the LIDAR system.

Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein includes a distance-measuring unit for measuring a distance to an object located in a detection field based on a time-of-flight signal. The distance-measuring unit includes an emitter unit for emitting laser pulses, an optical unit coupling the emitter unit to the detection field, the optical unit configured to guide the laser pulses into the detection field during operation, and a receiver unit having a sensitive sensor surface for receiving laser pulses reflected at the object as echo pulses, wherein the receiver unit is coupled to the detection field by means of the optical unit such that the echo pulses received from the detection field are guided through the optical unit onto the sensor surface during operation.

Abstract: In various embodiments, a leadframe is provided. The leadframe may include connection strips arranged alongside one another, said connection strips being connected via one or a plurality of holding webs. The connection strips have a contact section in each case at their first end section. At least in each case two adjacent connection strips form a strip group. Provision is made of at least one gap region in the region of second end sections of the connection strips of a respective strip group for contacting an electronic component.

Abstract: A method for operating a lamp may include: Connecting a device to a pair of input connections of an electronic ballast and by this means determining a respective dimming duration for at least one predetermined situation; and Activating the lamp by the electronic ballast in at least one predetermined situation such that the lamp emits light with a reduced intensity compared with the normal intensity at which the lamp otherwise emits light over a period of a dimming duration determined for this situation.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling at least one electrical load may include at least one pushbutton; a communications interface for communicating with the loads, the loads being switched on and off by the at least one pushbutton via the communications interface; and a first controlled switch with control logic, said switch being connected between the loads and a power supply, and the first controlled switch isolates the power supply from the loads as soon as all of the loads have been disconnected via the communications interface.

Abstract: A method for operating a lamp may include: Connecting a device to a pair of input connections of an electronic ballast and by this means determining a respective dimming duration for at least one predetermined situation; and Activating the lamp by the electronic ballast in at least one predetermined situation such that the lamp emits light with a reduced intensity compared with the normal intensity at which the lamp otherwise emits light over a period of a dimming duration determined for this situation.

Abstract: Disclosed is a circuit arrangement for supplying a lamp wattage to a high-pressure discharge lamp (Lp) in the form of an alternating current having an operating frequency. The alternating current is generated by a full bridge that is composed of two half-bridge branches. The lamp wattage can be adjusted via the phase which the two half-bridge branches have relative to each other. The lamp wattage is modulated by means of the transmission function of an interface if the operating frequency is frequency-modulated. Said modulation of the lamp wattage can be compensated by adequately correcting the phase.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling at least one electrical load may include at least one pushbutton; a communications interface for communicating with the loads, the loads being switched on and off by the at least one pushbutton via the communications interface; and a first controlled switch with control logic, said switch being connected between the loads and a power supply, and the first controlled switch isolates the power supply from the loads as soon as all of the loads have been disconnected via the communications interface.

Abstract: Disclosed is a circuit arrangement for supplying a lamp wattage to a high-pressure discharge lamp (Lp) in the form of an alternating current having an operating frequency. The alternating current is generated by a full bridge that is composed of two half-bridge branches. The lamp wattage can be adjusted via the phase which the two half-bridge branches have relative to each other. The lamp wattage is modulated by means of the transmission function of an interface if the operating frequency is frequency-modulated. Said modulation of the lamp wattage can be compensated by adequately correcting the phase.

Abstract: A circuit arrangement for operating at least one high-pressure discharge lamp having four switches in a full bridge arrangement, a first and a second switch forming the first half-bridge arm, and a third and a fourth switch forming the second half-bridge arm, at least two terminals for coupling the high pressure discharge lamp between the midpoint of the half-bridge arms, at least one terminal for supplying the circuit arrangement with a DC voltage signal, and a drive circuit for driving the four switches, the drive circuit being designed to provide a first drive signal for the switches of the arm and a second drive signal for those of the second arm in such that the drive signals are derived from a base signal whose clock pulse is swept between a first and a second frequency.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a circuit arrangement for operating at least one high-pressure discharge lamp (16) having four switches (Q1 to Q4) in a full bridge arrangement, a first and a second switch (Q1, Q2) forming the first half-bridge arm, and a third and a fourth switch (Q3, Q4) forming the second half-bridge arm, at least two terminals for coupling the high pressure discharge lamp between the midpoint (M1, M2) of the first and of the second half-bridge arms, at least one terminal for supplying the circuit arrangement with a DC voltage signal (Uv), and a drive circuit for driving the four switches, the drive circuit being designed to provide a first drive signal ({overscore (A)}) for the switches (Q1, Q2) of the first half-bridge arm and a second drive signal (B) for the switches (Q3, Q4) of the second half-bridge arm in such a way that the first and the second drive signals ({overscore (A)}, B) are derived from a base signal (A) whose clock pulse is swept between a first and a second frequency, an