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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2021
Sierra Nevada Corporation, Sparks, NV (US);
Jack Philip Cross, Reno, NV (US);
William Edward Brandstetter, III, Sparks, NV (US);
Igor Valigura, Sparks, NV (US);
Justin Michael Bode, Reno, NV (US);
Damien Bruno Jourdan, San Jose, CA (US);
David McMartin Howard, Sparks, NV (US);
Rodney Lee Pickens, Sparks, NV (US);
Timothy L. Sweet, Sparks, NV (US);
Joshua D. Gleason, Reno, NV (US);
Joseph H. Hansen, Jr., Kaysville, UT (US);
SIERRA NEVADA CORPORATION, Sparks, NV (US);
Abstract
An imaging system for a moving vehicle aggregates pre-existing data with sensor data to provide an image of the surrounding environment in real-time. The pre-existing data are combined with data from one or more 3-D sensors, and 2-D information from a camera, to create a scene model that is rendered for display. The system accepts data from a 3-D sensor, transforms the data into a 3-D data structure, fuses the pre-existing scene data with the 3-D data structure and 2-D image data from a 2-D sensor to create a combined scene model, and renders the combined scene model for display. The system may also weight aspects of data from first and second sensors to select at least one aspect from the first sensor and another aspect from the second sensor; wherein fusing the pre-existing scene data with the sensor data uses the selected aspect from the first sensor and the selected aspect from the second sensor.