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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2023
Zimeno, Inc., Livermore, CA (US);
Christopher Travis Whitney, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Rama Venkata Surya Kumar Varma Bhupatiraju, Milpitas, CA (US);
Mizbauddin Mohammed, Fremont, CA (US);
Bhargav Ramakrishna Reddy, Fremont, CA (US);
Praveen V. Penmetsa, Newark, CA (US);
Zachary M. Omohundro, Carson, CA (US);
Zimeno Inc., Livermore, CA (US);
Abstract
A vehicle control system may include a vehicle having a propulsion unit and a steering unit, a forward-facing camera carried by the vehicle, a processor, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising operator position identification instructions. The operator position identification instructions direct the processor to identify relative positioning of a remote operator on the ground proximate the vehicle based upon signals from the forward-facing camera; and control the propulsion unit and the steering unit of the vehicle to follow the operator based upon the relative on the ground proximate the vehicle.