Image fusion for autonomous vehicle operation

    公开(公告)号:US11823460B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-21

    申请号:US16442182

    申请日:2019-06-14

    Applicant: TUSIMPLE, INC.

    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for fusing scenes from real-time image feeds from on-vehicle cameras in autonomous vehicles to reduce redundancy of the information processed to enable real-time autonomous operation are described. One example of a method for improving perception in an autonomous vehicle includes receiving a plurality of cropped images, wherein each of the plurality of cropped images comprises one or more bounding boxes that correspond to one or more objects in a corresponding cropped image; identifying, based on the metadata in the plurality of cropped images, a first bounding box in a first cropped image and a second bounding box in a second cropped image, wherein the first and second bounding boxes correspond to a common object; and fusing the metadata corresponding to the common object from the first cropped image and the second cropped image to generate an output result for the common object.

    Adaptive illumination for a time-of-flight camera on a vehicle

    公开(公告)号:US11523067B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-06

    申请号:US17325135

    申请日:2021-05-19

    Applicant: TUSIMPLE, INC.

    Abstract: Disclosed are devices, systems and methods for capturing an image. In one aspect an electronic camera apparatus includes an image sensor with a plurality of pixel regions. The apparatus further includes an exposure controller. The exposure controller determines, for each of the plurality of pixel regions, a corresponding exposure duration and a corresponding exposure start time. Each pixel region begins to integrate incident light starting at the corresponding exposure start time and continues to integrate light for the corresponding exposure duration. In some example embodiments, at least two of the corresponding exposure durations or at least two of the corresponding exposure start times are different in the image.

    REDUNDANT HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

    公开(公告)号:US20210394770A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-23

    申请号:US16910012

    申请日:2020-06-23

    Applicant: TUSIMPLE, INC.

    Abstract: A redundant hardware and software architecture can be designed to enable vehicles to be operated in an autonomous mode while improving the reliability and/or safety of such vehicles. A system for redundant architecture can include a set of at least two redundant sensors coupled to a vehicle and configured to provide timestamped sensor data to each of a plurality of computing unit (CU) computers. The CU computers can process the sensor data simultaneously based on at least a time value indicative of an absolute time or a relative time and based on the timestamped sensor data. The CU computers provide to a vehicle control unit (VCU) computer at least two sets of outputs configured to instruct a plurality of devices in a vehicle and cause the vehicle to be driven.

    Transitioning steering control from an autonomous vehicle to a driver

    公开(公告)号:US12179805B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-31

    申请号:US18176714

    申请日:2023-03-01

    Applicant: TuSimple, Inc.

    Abstract: Techniques are described for transitioning control of a steering system from an autonomous mode in a vehicle to a driver-controlled mode where the driver can control the steering wheel of the steering system. A method includes receiving values that describe an amount of torque and a direction of torque in response to a torque applied to a steering wheel of a steering system operated in an autonomous mode, determining that the values are either greater than or equal to a threshold value or are less than or equal to a negative of the threshold value, determining that the values are measured over a period of time greater than or equal to a pre-determined amount of time, and transitioning the steering system from being operated in the autonomous mode to being operated in a driver-controlled mode in which the steering system is under manual control.

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