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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025

Filed:

Nov. 16, 2021
Applicant:

Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);

Inventors:

Wulue Zhao, Ann Arbor, MI (US);

Fnu Ratnesh Kumar, Mountain View, CA (US);

Kevin L. Wyffels, Livonia, MI (US);

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B60W 50/06 (2006.01); G01S 17/89 (2020.01); G01S 17/931 (2020.01); G06F 18/21 (2023.01); G06F 18/25 (2023.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06T 7/50 (2017.01); G06T 7/62 (2017.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06V 20/10 (2022.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 60/0016 (2020.02); B60W 50/06 (2013.01); G01S 17/89 (2013.01); G01S 17/931 (2020.01); G06F 18/21 (2023.01); G06F 18/253 (2023.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06T 7/50 (2017.01); G06T 7/62 (2017.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06V 20/10 (2022.01); G06V 20/588 (2022.01); B60W 2420/408 (2024.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20084 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30241 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30256 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer program products for operating a robotic system. For example, the method includes: obtaining a first cuboid generated based on an image, a second cuboid generated based on a lidar dataset and/or a third cuboid generated by a heuristic algorithm using the lidar dataset; using a machine learning model to generate a heading for an object in proximity to the robotic system based on the first cuboid, second cuboid and/or third cuboid; generating a bounding box geometry and a bounding box location based on the second cuboid or third cuboid; and generating a fourth cuboid using the bounding box geometry, the bounding box location, and the heading generated using the machine learning model.


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