G01S 7/491
Details of non-pulse systems
G01S7/491 (Details of non-pulse systems) appears on 2,034 US grants and 2,503 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01S- Granted patents
- 2,034
- Published applications
- 2,503
- Assignees
- 758
- Inventors
- 3,673
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 2 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 2 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
| 1985 | 6 | 0 |
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| 1992 | 11 | 0 |
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| 1994 | 8 | 0 |
| 1995 | 13 | 0 |
| 1996 | 9 | 0 |
| 1997 | 19 | 0 |
| 1998 | 28 | 0 |
| 1999 | 17 | 0 |
| 2000 | 10 | 0 |
| 2001 | 10 | 3 |
| 2002 | 13 | 21 |
| 2003 | 18 | 13 |
| 2004 | 16 | 13 |
| 2005 | 12 | 18 |
| 2006 | 13 | 9 |
| 2007 | 9 | 16 |
| 2008 | 16 | 19 |
| 2009 | 10 | 20 |
| 2010 | 23 | 26 |
| 2011 | 18 | 41 |
| 2012 | 22 | 46 |
| 2013 | 29 | 33 |
| 2014 | 48 | 48 |
| 2015 | 36 | 59 |
| 2016 | 46 | 71 |
| 2017 | 68 | 90 |
| 2018 | 77 | 127 |
| 2019 | 112 | 170 |
| 2020 | 124 | 212 |
| 2021 | 146 | 258 |
| 2022 | 214 | 341 |
| 2023 | 234 | 287 |
| 2024 | 220 | 266 |
| 2025 | 198 | 180 |
| 2026 | 136 | 116 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Depth sensing using multiple coherent emitters6 Oct 2026US 12,754,290 B2Apple Inc.
- Time-of-flight sensor and method for adjusting an exposure time of such a sensor6 Oct 2026US 12,754,297 B2STMicroelectronics France
- Time-of-flight motion misalignment artifact correction6 Oct 2026US 12,754,298 B2GM Cruise Holdings LLC
- Low-power photonic demodulator6 Oct 2026US 12,757,502 B2The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Device for converting a photonic signal, associated lidar and method29 Sep 2026US 12,748,187 B2Commissariat A L' Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
- Method of image processing for a motor vehicle1 Oct 2026US 2026/0301416 A1Magna Electronics Sweden AB
- Indoor lidar plenoptic sensor array based on time-of-flight reflection24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287720 A1UNM Rainforest Innovations
- Method of scanning a lidar system for gas detection17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276824 A1QLM Technology Ltd
- Hybrid lidar system capable of generating and detecting multiple waveforms in real time17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276825 A1Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
- Distance measurement system10 Sep 2026US 2026/0266971 A1Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Optoelectric sensing device with common deflection device235US 7,345,271 B2IBEO Automobile Sensor GmbH · 2008
- Predictive collision sensing system231US 6,085,151 AAutomotive Systems Laboratory, Inc. · 2000
- Method and system to avoid inter-system interference for phase-based time-of-flight systems202US 7,405,812 B1Canesta, Inc. · 2008
- CMOS-compatible three-dimensional image sensing using reduced peak energy193US 6,587,186 B2Canesta, Inc. · 2003
- Methods and devices for charge management for three-dimensional sensing193US 6,906,793 B2Canesta, Inc. · 2005