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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2019
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Harrison Thomas Waschura, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Turhan Karadeniz, Oakland, CA (US);
Ryan McMichael, Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert Nicholas Moor, San Mateo, CA (US);
Denis Nikitin, Campbell, CA (US);
Subasingha Shaminda Subasingha, San Ramon, CA (US);
Joseph Patrick Warga, San Francisco, CA (US);
Silas Kogure Wilkinson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
Sensors, including time-of-flight sensors, may be used to detect objects in an environment. In an example, a vehicle may include a time-of-flight sensor that images objects around the vehicle, e.g., so the vehicle can navigate relative to the objects. Sensor data generated by the time-of-flight sensor can be impacted by glare. In some examples, an emitter system for illuminating a field of view can be dynamically altered to provide different illumination intensities at different regions in the field of view. For instance, locations at which a highly-reflective object or other object that is likely to cause glare may be illuminated at a lower illumination intensity, e.g., to reduce the likelihood of pixel saturation in measured data associated with the object.