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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2020
Waymo Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nicholas Armstrong-Crews, Mountain View, CA (US);
Arthur Safira, Los Altos, CA (US);
Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects and implementations of the present disclosure address shortcomings of the existing technology by enabling lidar-assisted segmentation and identification of particulate matter in autonomous vehicle (AV) applications, by: obtaining, by a sensing system of the AV, a plurality of return points, each return point having one or more velocity values and one or more coordinates of a reflecting region that reflects a signal emitted by the sensing system, identifying, in view of the one or more velocity values of each of a first set of the return points of the plurality of return points, that the first set of the return points is associated with a particulate matter in an environment of the AV, and causing a driving path of the AV to be determined in view of the particulate matter.