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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2022
Applicant:
Waymo Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventor:
Gil Shotan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G01S 17/89 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 60/0011 (2020.02); G01S 17/89 (2013.01); B60W 2554/40 (2020.02);
Abstract
Aspects and implementations of the present disclosure relate to augmenting point cloud data with artificial return points. An example method includes: receiving point cloud data comprising a plurality of return points, each return point being representative of a reflecting region that reflects a beam emitted by a sensing system, and generating a plurality of artificial return points based on presence or absence of return points along radial paths of beams emitted from the sensing system.