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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2021
Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany Gmbh, Ingolstadt, DE;
Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany GmbH, Ingolstadt, DE;
Abstract
A method for processing data provided by a lidar. Obtaining, for measurement points of a lidar, data representative of a diffuse intensity and a distance between the measurement point and the lidar; determining an angle of incidence of the lidar at each measurement point; calculating, for each measurement point, reflectivity from the angle of incidence, the distance and the diffuse intensity; identifying spatially adjacent measurement points having a reflectivity within a given range of values to form common reflectivity zones; defining a cost function for at least one common reflectivity zone, the cost function including a first diffuse intensity and a second diffuse intensity, the angle and the distance of the measurement point in question; minimizing the cost function in order to update at least one of the angle, the distance and the reflectivity at the measurement point, for each of the measurement points belonging to a common reflectivity zone.