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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2019
Plusai, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Jinpeng Li, San Jose, CA (US);
Greg Seyfarth, Los Altos, CA (US);
Qiaoyu Zhang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Amit Kumar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
PlusAI, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementation for sensor protection. It is determined whether a cleaning operation needs to be applied to a portion of a sensor assembly deployed on a vehicle and hosting a sensor therein to acquire information of a surrounding through the portion to facilitate autonomous driving. If the cleaning operation is to be applied, at least one type of cleaning is selected to be carried out by one or more devices mounted on the sensor assembly with respect to the portion. For each of the devices, needed control signal is generated for activating the device to perform a cleaning task the device is configured for and sent to the device to clean the certain portion of the sensor assembly in order to prevent degradation in the information acquired by the sensor through the portion.