| CPC G01S 7/484 (2013.01) [G01S 17/10 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
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1. A system comprising:
a time-of-flight sensor including an array of light emitters comprising a plurality of rows of light emitters and a plurality of columns of light emitters configured to emit emitted light into an environment;
a receiver configured to receive reflected light corresponding to at least a portion of the emitted light after reflecting off an object in the environment;
one or more processors; and
memory storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, configure a vehicle to perform operations comprising:
receiving first sensor data from the time-of-flight sensor, the first sensor data corresponding to first reflected light associated with the time-of-flight sensor configured in a first configuration, the first configuration configuring the time-of-flight sensor to emit the emitted light at a first illumination intensity;
determining a location of an object in a field of view of the time-of-flight sensor, the location corresponding to a position of one or more saturated pixels in the first sensor data;
determining a second configuration for the time-of-flight sensor, the second configuration configuring the time-of-flight sensor to emit a first portion of the emitted light corresponding to a first portion of the field of view proximate the location at a second illumination intensity lower than the first illumination intensity by decreasing one or more of a voltage or a current supplied to one or more light emitters associated with the first portion and to emit a second portion of the emitted light corresponding to a second portion of the field of view excluding the first portion at the first illumination intensity, wherein the first portion of the emitted light comprises at least one of a first row of the plurality of rows or a first column of the plurality of columns; and
generating a signal to configure the time-of-flight sensor in the second configuration.
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