Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicle lighting state determination
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Application No.: US15982658Application Date: 2018-05-17
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Publication No.: US11126873B2Publication Date: 2021-09-21
- Inventor: Tencia Lee , Kai Zhenyu Wang , James William Vaisey Philbin
- Applicant: Zoox, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Foster City
- Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Foster City
- Agency: Lee & Hayes, P.C.
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; G06K9/66 ; G05D1/02 ; G06N7/00 ; G06N3/08 ; G05D1/00

Abstract:
Techniques for determining lighting states of a tracked object, such as a vehicle, are discussed herein. An autonomous vehicle can include an image sensor to capture image data of an environment. Objects such can be identified in the image data as objects to be tracked. Frames of the image data representing the tracked object can be selected and input to a machine learning algorithm (e.g., a convolutional neural network, a recurrent neural network, etc.) that is trained to determine probabilities associated with one or more lighting states of the tracked object. Such lighting states include, but are not limited to, a blinker state(s), a brake state, a hazard state, etc. Based at least in part on the one or more probabilities associated with the one or more lighting states, the autonomous vehicle can determine a trajectory for the autonomous vehicle and/or can determine a predicted trajectory for the tracked object.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190354786A1 Vehicle Lighting State Determination Public/Granted day:2019-11-21
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