Novel Concept for Retrofitting Non-Autonomous Automobiles to Function as Autonomous Automobiles
Central to this concept would be a specialized headlamp module that would replace a given automobile’s factory headlamps and would be designed to match the form factor of the factory headlamps. The modules would serve not only as headlamps, but would serve as both RADAR and LiDAR units capable of generating high-resolution 3D maps of the environs of the automobile.
Essential to function would be an upgraded computer and a cervo-control system capable of manipulating the steering column as needed.
LiDAR design:
The specialized headlamps, rather than using rotational, or even mirror-wobble LiDAR (a workaround for a different patent that predates both of those LiDAR designs) this design would utilize my own proprietary design, currently in use by the U.S. Navy (Aegis Block-1B and later) and Israeli Defense Forces (Iron Dome System.) This design relies on a laser to project light at a very specific frequency, with no other frequencies of light contaminating the beam, and a specialized prism that has the attribute of no two parts of the prism having the same thickness. In this way, a single laser can be split into an infinite variety of frequencies, each of which correspond to a different geospacial area in the “point cloud,” the current industry term in use.
Although that LiDAR design is not the newest on the market, it is the best, and seeing as I invented it, I should have the right to recombine it with other technologies in other contexts as I see fit, and as such, I submit it here for publication.
The Future is Made in America.
26Jul2021
Central to this concept would be a specialized headlamp module that would replace a given automobile’s factory headlamps and would be designed to match the form factor of the factory headlamps. The modules would serve not only as headlamps, but would serve as both RADAR and LiDAR units capable of generating high-resolution 3D maps of the environs of the automobile.
Essential to function would be an upgraded computer and a cervo-control system capable of manipulating the steering column as needed.
LiDAR design:
The specialized headlamps, rather than using rotational, or even mirror-wobble LiDAR (a workaround for a different patent that predates both of those LiDAR designs) this design would utilize my own proprietary design, currently in use by the U.S. Navy (Aegis Block-1B and later) and Israeli Defense Forces (Iron Dome System.) This design relies on a laser to project light at a very specific frequency, with no other frequencies of light contaminating the beam, and a specialized prism that has the attribute of no two parts of the prism having the same thickness. In this way, a single laser can be split into an infinite variety of frequencies, each of which correspond to a different geospacial area in the “point cloud,” the current industry term in use.
Although that LiDAR design is not the newest on the market, it is the best, and seeing as I invented it, I should have the right to recombine it with other technologies in other contexts as I see fit, and as such, I submit it here for publication.
The Future is Made in America.
26Jul2021
