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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2023

Filed:

Nov. 02, 2020
Applicant:

Waymo Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Nicholas Armstrong-Crews, Mountain View, CA (US);

Mingcheng Chen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Xiaoxiang Hu, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 17/931 (2020.01); G01S 17/58 (2006.01); G01S 17/89 (2020.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B60W 30/09 (2012.01); B60W 30/095 (2012.01); G01S 17/06 (2006.01); G01S 17/50 (2006.01); G01S 17/04 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 17/931 (2020.01); B60W 30/09 (2013.01); B60W 30/0956 (2013.01); B60W 60/001 (2020.02); G01S 17/06 (2013.01); G01S 17/50 (2013.01); G01S 17/58 (2013.01); G01S 17/89 (2013.01); B60W 2420/52 (2013.01); B60W 2554/20 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4029 (2020.02); G01S 17/04 (2020.01);
Abstract

Aspects and implementations of the present disclosure address shortcomings of the existing technology by enabling Doppler-assisted segmentation of points in a point cloud for efficient object identification and tracking in autonomous vehicle (AV) applications, by: obtaining, by a sensing system of the AV, a plurality of return points comprising one or more velocity values and one or more coordinates of a reflecting region that reflects a signal emitted by the sensing system, the one or more velocity values and the one or more coordinates obtained for the same instance of time, identifying that the set of the return points is associated with an object in an environment, and causing a driving path of the AV to be determined in view of the object.


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