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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. 30, 2022

Filed:

Mar. 03, 2020
Applicant:

Waymo Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Nirav Dharia, Milpitas, CA (US);

Giulia Guidi, Mountain View, CA (US);

Ralph Shepard, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Vlad Cardei, Redwood City, CA (US);

Lucian Ion, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D 5/353 (2006.01); G01S 13/89 (2006.01); H04N 5/33 (2006.01); G01S 7/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D 5/35383 (2013.01); G01S 13/89 (2013.01); H04N 5/33 (2013.01); G01S 7/4004 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system may include a first sensor of a first type and a second sensor of a second different type and having a detector. A field of view of the second sensor may be formed by a plurality of regions of interest (ROIs) defined by the detector. Control circuitry of the system may be configured to perform operations including obtaining, from the first sensor, first sensor data representing an environment, and determining, based on the first sensor data, information associated with a feature of interest within the environment. The operations may also include determining, based on the information, a particular ROI that corresponds to an expected position of the feature at a later time, obtaining a plurality of ROI sensor data from the particular ROI instead of obtaining full-resolution sensor data, and analyzing the plurality of ROI sensor data to determine one or more attributes of the feature.


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