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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2018
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Rahul Sukthankar, Berkeley, CA (US);
Saurabh Gupta, Berkeley, CA (US);
James Christopher Davidson, Alameda, CA (US);
Sergey Vladimir Levine, Berkeley, CA (US);
Jitendra Malik, Berkeley, CA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for navigation using visual inputs. One of the systems includes a mapping subsystem configured to, at each time step of a plurality of time steps, generate a characterization of an environment from an image of the environment at the time step, wherein the characterization comprises an environment map identifying locations in the environment having a particular characteristic, and wherein generating the characterization comprises, for each time step: obtaining the image of the environment at the time step, processing the image to generate a first initial characterization for the time step, obtaining a final characterization for a previous time step, processing the characterization for the previous time step to generate a second initial characterization for the time step, and combining the first initial characterization and the second initial characterization to generate a final characterization for the time step.