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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2020
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Dilip Bethanabhotla, Freemont, CA (US);
Michael Carsten Bosse, Cupertino, CA (US);
Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar Chebiyyam, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nam Gook Cho, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jonathan Tyler Dowdall, San Francisco, CA (US);
Amanda Brown Prescott, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Subasingha Shaminda Subasingha, San Ramon, CA (US);
Sarah Tariq, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for utilizing microphone or audio data to detect and responding to low velocity impacts to a system such as an autonomous vehicle. In some cases, the system may be equipped with a plurality of microphones that may be used to detect impacts that fail to register on the data captured by the vehicle's inertial measurement units and may go undetected by the vehicle's perception system and sensors. In one specific example, the perception system of the autonomous vehicle may identify a period of time in which a potential low velocity impact may occur. The autonomous vehicle may then utilize the microphone or audio data associated with the period of time to determine if an impact occurred.