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Patent No.:

US 12240497 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2025

Filed:

Sep. 21, 2022

Determining intention of bicycles and other person-wide vehicles

Applicant:

Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);

Inventors:

Yi-Ting Lin, Foster City, CA (US);

Derek Xiang Ma, San Carlos, CA (US);

Kenneth Michael Siebert, Redwood City, CA (US);

Oytun Ulutan, Buena Park, CA (US);

Assignee:

Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);

Attorney:

EIP US LLP

Primary Examiner:

Michael J Zanelli

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B60W 40/04 (2006.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01); G06V 10/70 (2022.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01); G06V 40/20 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 60/0017 (2020.02); B60W 40/04 (2013.01); B60W 50/0097 (2013.01); B60W 60/00274 (2020.02); G06V 10/70 (2022.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01); G06V 40/20 (2022.01); B60W 2420/403 (2013.01); B60W 2554/4026 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4045 (2020.02);
Abstract

There is provided methods, systems, and computer-readable media for determining intention of bicycles and other person-wide vehicles. A method comprises: receiving, from one or more sensors of an autonomous vehicle, sensor data relating to an external environment of the autonomous vehicle; detecting, based at least in part on the sensor data, a person-wide vehicle in the external environment proximate to the autonomous vehicle; determining, based at least in part on the sensor data and the person-wide vehicle, image data including the person-wide vehicle; inputting the image data to a machine-learned model; receiving, from the machine-learned model based on the image data, a future intention of the person-wide vehicle; and controlling the autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the future intention of the person-wide vehicle.

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