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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2020
Weride Corp., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Junhua Tan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Fengzhi Wu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Liren Xu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Renfeng Zuo, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kerry Shu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Junping Xie, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yin-Min Huang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
WERIDE CORP., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An image capturing method, comprising: scanning with a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor an environment of the LIDAR sensor, wherein the LIDAR sensor progressively rotates about a rotation axis at a step angle, and when scanning each step angle the LIDAR sensor generates a point cloud of a portion of the environment in a predetermined pattern; scanning with an image sensor assembly mechanically coupled to the LIDAR sensor the environment in synchronization with the scanning by the LIDAR sensor to generate on an imaging plane of the image sensor assembly a sequence of image pixel rows of a portion of the environment corresponding to the point cloud of the portion of the environment; and combining the point cloud with the sequence of image pixel rows for the scanning of each step angle to obtain a fused image of the portion of the environment.