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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 30, 2019
Applicant:

Woven Planet North America, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);

Inventors:

Mohammad Emadi, San Jose, CA (US);

Jamaledin Izadian, San Jose, CA (US);

Ali Mostajeran, San Jose, CA (US);

Renyuan Zhang, Milpitas, CA (US);

Assignee:

Woven Planet North America, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/40 (2006.01); G01S 13/931 (2020.01); G01S 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/4026 (2013.01); G01S 7/40 (2013.01); G01S 13/931 (2013.01); G01S 7/403 (2021.05);
Abstract

Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media provide a blind online calibration mechanism to calibrate the position of the radar unit while the self-driving vehicle is in motion without the use of any map data. Specifically, a calibration system associated with the self-driving vehicle is configured to adjust the boresight angle of the radar within a calibration range and monitor the convergence or divergence pattern of the resulting clutter locations. The boresight angle of the radar unit may be progressively adjusted in static or dynamic degree increments until the convergence of the clutter curves is observed. In this way, without using any map data or factory settings, radar calibration can be conducted as often as needed while the vehicle is moving. Radar sensing and measurement accuracy is thus improved.


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