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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2020
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Yongzhe Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
Samuel Holladay, San Francisco, CA (US);
Turhan Karadeniz, Oakland, CA (US);
Ryan McMichael, Mountain View, CA (US);
Subasingha Shaminda Subasingha, San Ramon, 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
Techniques for determining a distance to an object in an environment based on sensor data are discussed herein. The sensor data can be captured by a sensor, and the sensor data can be based on laser pulses emitted from emitters being differently spaced apart from the sensor. The sensor data can be utilized to determine distance data associated with an object. A difference between the distance data can be used to determine whether the distance data is associated with a retroreflector. If the difference in distance data is above a threshold, a confidence level of sensor data can be adjusted or the sensor data can be discarded or omitted from subsequent processing.