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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2020
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Subasingha Shaminda Subasingha, San Ramon, CA (US);
Yongzhe Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
Mehran Ferdowsi, San Mateo, CA (US);
Samuel Holladay, San Francisco, CA (US);
Turhan Karadeniz, Oakland, CA (US);
Robert Nicholas Moor, San Mateo, CA (US);
Joseph Patrick Warga, San Francisco, CA (US);
Harrison Thomas Waschura, Los Altos Hills, 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. The sensor may generate first image data at a first configuration and second image data at a second configuration. An estimated depth of an object may be determined from the first image data, and an actual depth of the object may be determined from the second image data, based on the estimated depth. In examples, the first and second configurations have different modulation frequencies such that a nominal maximum depth in the first configuration is greater than the nominal maximum depth in the second configuration.