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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2017
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
Marcos Paul Gerardo Castro, Mountain View, CA (US);
Dongran Liu, San Jose, CA (US);
Sneha Kadetotad, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jinesh J Jain, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/11 (2006.01); G06N 7/00 (2006.01); G01S 13/93 (2006.01); G01S 17/93 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 1/00 (2013.01); G06F 17/11 (2013.01); G06N 7/005 (2013.01); B60R 2300/802 (2013.01); B60R 2300/8093 (2013.01); G01S 13/931 (2013.01); G01S 17/936 (2013.01); G01S 2013/9317 (2013.01);
Abstract
Example obstacle detection systems and methods are described. In one implementation, a method receives data from at least one sensor mounted to a vehicle and creates a probabilistic grid-based map associated with an area near the vehicle. The method also determines a confidence associated with each probability in the grid-based map and determines a likelihood that an obstacle exists in the area near the vehicle based on the probabilistic grid-based map.