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Patent No.:

US 11774250 B1

Date of Patent:

Oct. 03, 2023

Filed:

Jul. 02, 2020

Using high definition maps for generating synthetic sensor data for autonomous vehicles

Applicant:

Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Gil Colgate, Foster City, CA (US);

Ronghua Zhang, Campbell, CA (US);

Assignee:

NVIDIA CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:

Maschoff Brennan

Primary Examiner:

Jeffrey C Boomer

Int. Cl.

CPC ...

G01C 21/30 (2006.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G06V 10/774 (2022.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01); G06F 18/214 (2023.01); G01C 21/00 (2006.01);

U.S. Cl.

CPC ...

G01C 21/30 (2013.01); G01C 21/3492 (2013.01); G01C 21/3807 (2020.08); G01C 21/3833 (2020.08); G06F 18/2155 (2023.01); G06V 10/7753 (2022.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01);

Abstract

According to an aspect of an embodiment, operations may comprise accessing high definition (HD) map data of a region, presenting, via a user interface, information describing the HD map data, receiving instructions, via the user interface, for modifying the HD map data by adding one or more synthetic objects to locations in the HD map data, modifying the HD map data based on the received instructions, and generating a synthetic track in the modified HD map data comprising, for each of one or more vehicle poses, generated synthetic sensor data based on the one or more synthetic objects in the modified HD map data.

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