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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2020
Aptiv Technologies Limited, St. Michael, BB;
Marcin Piatek, Cracow, PL;
Kamil Lelowicz, Bogunice, PL;
APTIV TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED, St. Michael, BB;
Abstract
A method of estimating whether an object is visible for a sensor includes determining a position and orientation of at least two objects, defining surfaces tangent to each object that cover the object, and defining a plurality of rays starting at a sensor position specifying an origin of a coordinate system. Each ray has an azimuth and elevation angle in the coordinate system. For each object, a respective subset of rays have a point of intersection with at least one of the surfaces of the object. For each ray of the subset, the object comprising the point of intersection having the shortest distance to the origin of the coordinate system is identified, and a visibility index for the identified object is increased. A percentage of visibility for each object is determined as a ratio of the visibility index and the number of rays of the subset of the object.
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