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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2019
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Sarah Tariq, Palo Alto, CA (US);
James William Vaisey Philbin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Yi Xu, Pasadena, CA (US);
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
A sensor degradation detection and remediation system includes one or more sensors configured to collect image data from an environment. A combination of techniques may be used to detect degradations within regions of the image data captured by a sensor, including one or more of determining a level of the visual consistency between the associated image regions captured by different sensors, determining a level of opaqueness of the image regions, and/or measuring temporal movement of the image regions captured by a sensor over a period of time. Operations of a vehicle or other system may be controlled based at least in part on the detection of degradations of the image data captured by the sensors, including automated cleaning of a sensor surface, reducing a level of reliance on the image data received from the sensor, and/or changing a direction of travel of the vehicle.