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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.

Patent No.:

US 11842576 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2023

Filed:

Feb. 03, 2023

Sensor degradation monitor

Applicant:

Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);

Inventors:

Christopher David Canady, Redwood City, CA (US);

Ryan McMichael, San Francisco, CA (US);

Irene Perali, Mountain View, CA (US);

Sandra Ruiz, Newark, CA (US);

Assignee:

ZOOX, INC., Foster City, CA (US);

Attorney:

Lee & Hayes P.C.

Primary Examiner:

Muhammad Shafi

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G07C 5/00 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G01S 17/931 (2020.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01); G07C 5/08 (2006.01); B60S 1/56 (2006.01); B60W 50/02 (2012.01); B60W 50/038 (2012.01); H04N 17/00 (2006.01); G01S 7/497 (2006.01); G06V 10/25 (2022.01); G06V 10/98 (2022.01); G06V 10/50 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G07C 5/008 (2013.01); B60S 1/56 (2013.01); B60W 50/0205 (2013.01); B60W 50/038 (2013.01); B60W 60/0015 (2020.02); G01S 7/497 (2013.01); G01S 17/931 (2020.01); G05D 1/0231 (2013.01); G06V 10/25 (2022.01); G06V 10/507 (2022.01); G06V 10/993 (2022.01); G07C 5/0808 (2013.01); H04N 17/002 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0215 (2013.01); B60W 2420/42 (2013.01); B60W 2420/52 (2013.01); B60W 2555/20 (2020.02);
Abstract

Techniques for determining a degraded state associated with a sensor are discussed herein. For example, a sensor associated with vehicle may captured data of an environment. A portion of the data may represent a portion of the vehicle. Data associated with a region of interest can be determined based on a calibration associated with the sensor. For example, in the context of image data, image coordinates may be used to determine a region of interest, while in the context of lidar data, a beam and/or azimuth can be used to determine a region of interest. A data metric can be determined for data in the region of interest, and an action can be determined based on the data metric. For example, the action can include cleaning a sensor, scheduling maintenance, reducing a confidence associated with the data, or slowing or stopping the vehicle.

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