US Patent 11340335 Multiple LIDAR processing methods and systems

A vehicle that includes at least two LIDAR systems can process data from the two LIDAR systems in an interleaved manner such that data from only one of the two LIDAR systems during a given time period is processed, thereby reducing the computational load on a data processing system in the vehicle. For example, the data processing system can receive and process first LIDAR data captured by a first LIDAR system during a first time period and then receive and process second LIDAR data captured by a second LIDAR system during a second time period that follows the first time period; the data processing system, in one embodiment, does not process data from the second LIDAR system if available and captured by the second LIDAR system during the first time period.