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Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2023

Filed:

Aug. 12, 2020
Applicant:

Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jincheng Li, Los Altos, CA (US);

Minwoo Park, Saratoga, CA (US);

Assignee:

NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 45/10 (2020.01); B60Q 1/14 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2022.01); H05B 47/125 (2020.01); B60Q 1/076 (2006.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/143 (2013.01); B60Q 1/076 (2013.01); G06K 9/6278 (2013.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01); H05B 45/10 (2020.01); H05B 47/125 (2020.01); B60Q 2300/41 (2013.01); B60Q 2300/42 (2013.01); B60Q 2300/45 (2013.01);
Abstract

In various examples, high beam control for vehicles may be automated using a deep neural network (DNN) that processes sensor data received from vehicle sensors. The DNN may process the sensor data to output pixel-level semantic segmentation masks in order to differentiate actionable objects (e.g., vehicles with front or back lights lit, bicyclists, or pedestrians) from other objects (e.g., parked vehicles). Resulting segmentation masks output by the DNN(s), when combined with one or more post processing steps, may be used to generate masks for automated high beam on/off activation and/or dimming or shading—thereby providing additional illumination of an environment for the driver while controlling downstream effects of high beam glare for active vehicles.


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