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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2021
Applicant:
Nec Corporation of America, Herzlia, IL;
Inventor:
Tsvi Lev, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation Of America, Herzlia, IL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/73 (2017.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G06T 7/246 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/73 (2017.01); B60W 60/001 (2020.02); G06T 7/246 (2017.01); B60W 2420/403 (2013.01); B60W 2520/10 (2013.01); B60W 2520/12 (2013.01); B60W 2520/16 (2013.01); B60W 2552/50 (2020.02); B60W 2552/53 (2020.02); B60W 2555/60 (2020.02); G06T 2207/10048 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30204 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30256 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of autonomous vehicle control, comprising: receiving an image of a lenticular human-imperceptible marker embedded in an element of an environment that an autonomous vehicle is moving in, the marker having a pattern usable for determining positional data of the moving vehicle, the image captured using human-invisible light, analyzing the received image of the human-imperceptible marker, and controlling the autonomous vehicle based on the analyzed image of the human-imperceptible marker.