US 12,077,187 B2
Sensing system and vehicle
Shuki Yamamoto, Shizuoka (JP); Toru Nagashima, Shizuoka (JP); Misako Kamiya, Shizuoka (JP); and Shunsuke Okamura, Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/077,334.
Application 18/077,334 is a division of application No. 16/758,459, granted, now 11,554,792, previously published as PCT/JP2018/039485, filed on Oct. 24, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 2017-207499 (JP), filed on Oct. 26, 2017; and application No. 2017-207500 (JP), filed on Oct. 26, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0105832 A1, Apr. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B60W 40/04 (2006.01); G01S 7/484 (2006.01); G01S 17/89 (2020.01); G01S 17/894 (2020.01); G01S 17/93 (2020.01)
CPC B60W 60/0017 (2020.02) [B60W 40/04 (2013.01); G01S 7/484 (2013.01); G01S 17/89 (2013.01); G01S 17/894 (2020.01); G01S 17/93 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sensing system provided in a vehicle capable of running in an autonomous driving mode, the sensing system comprising:
a LiDAR configured to acquire point group data indicating surrounding environment of the vehicle;
a processor programmed to acquire surrounding environment information indicating the surrounding environment of the vehicle, based on the point group data acquired from the LiDAR unit;
an actuator configured to change a tilt angle of the LiDAR relative to an up-and-down direction of the vehicle between each scanning frame of the LIDAR in a predetermined manner;
wherein the processor is programmed to control a driving of the actuator.