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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2018
Nauto Global Limited, Dublin, IE;
Vaibhav Ghadiok, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael Gleeson-May, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Nauto, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for localization and mapping, including recording an image at a camera mounted to a vehicle, the vehicle associated with a global system location; identifying a landmark depicted in the image with a landmark identification module of a computing system associated with the vehicle, the identified landmark having a landmark geographic location and a known parameter; extracting a set of landmark parameters from the image with a feature extraction module of the computing system; determining, at the computing system, a relative position between the vehicle and the landmark geographic location based on a comparison between the extracted set of landmark parameters and the known parameter; and updating, at the computing system, the global system location based on the relative position.