2021 BRN Discussion, page-32438

Hi SG,

This is the Valeo Lidar sensor patent application - oddly, only seems to be filed only in Germany?

DE102020107377A1
DE102020107377A1
A method for processing a three-dimensional point cloud, which is detected by at least one LiDAR sensor (11) of a vehicle (10), comprising the following steps: emitting light beams (17) in an environment (15) of the vehicle (10) by means of an emitter of the at least one LiDAR sensor (11), - receiving light beams (32), which were reflected on at least one object (19) in the vicinity (15) of the vehicle, by means of a receiver (13) of the at least one LiDAR Sensors (11), - calculating the three-dimensional point cloud based on the received light beams (32) in a processing unit (14), each point of the point cloud corresponding to a received light beam (32), - detecting objects (19) in the three-dimensional point cloud in the processing unit (14), characterized by determining an area of interest (23) in the surroundings (15) of the vehicle (10) based on a movement parameter and / or a position parameter er of the vehicle (10) in the processing unit (14), the area of interest (23) being at least a sub-area of the surroundings (15) of the vehicle (10), and the detection of objects (19) using points of the point cloud in the area of interest (23) and discarding points outside the area of interest (23).




The patent addresses the latency in processing the point cloud 15 by focussing on a subsection 24 of the point cloud. It does not mention SNN,, but it does not exclude it.

Due to the Coriolis effect, it only works on right hand drive vehicles in the northern hemisphere.