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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2022
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Yongzhe Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar Chebiyyam, San Francisco, CA (US);
Samuel Russell Holladay, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert Nicholas Moor, San Mateo, CA (US);
Jonathan Solheim, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Shaminda Subasingha, San Ramon, CA (US);
Wuyang Yu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
Sensors, including time-of-flight sensors, may be used to detect objects in an environment. In an example, a vehicle may include a time-of-flight sensor that images objects around the vehicle, e.g., so the vehicle can navigate relative to the objects. Composite sensor data can be generated based on information from multiple exposures captured at different exposure times. In examples, a first depth determination technique is applied to a first subset of pixels and a second depth determination technique is applied to a second subset of the pixels. The first subset of pixels may correspond to pixels that are associated with a highly-reflective surface.