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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2025
Filed:
May. 30, 2024
Waymo Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Xiaoying He, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ryan Geiss, San Jose, CA (US);
Pieter Kapsenberg, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Carl Warren Craddock, San Francisco, CA (US);
Zhinan Xu, San Jose, CA (US);
Lucian Ion, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ajay Chandra Venkata Gummalla, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A system is provided that includes an image sensor coupled to a vehicle, and control circuitry configured to perform operations including receiving, from the image sensor, an input stream comprising high dynamic range (HDR) image data associated with an environment of the vehicle, and processing the input stream at the vehicle by applying a global tone mapping, followed by offline image processing that can include applying a local tone mapping to the globally tone mapped images of the same input stream.