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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:
Oct. 21, 2025

Filed:

Sep. 15, 2022
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Marcos Paul Gerardo Castro, San Francisco, CA (US);

Aniruddh Ravindran, Mountain View, CA (US);

Mishel Johns, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 13/89 (2006.01); B60W 30/09 (2012.01); B60W 30/095 (2012.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G01S 7/40 (2006.01); G01S 7/48 (2006.01); G01S 7/497 (2006.01); G01S 13/86 (2006.01); G01S 13/931 (2020.01); G01S 17/86 (2020.01); G01S 17/89 (2020.01); G01S 17/931 (2020.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 13/89 (2013.01); G01S 7/40 (2013.01); G01S 7/4808 (2013.01); G01S 7/497 (2013.01); G01S 13/867 (2013.01); G01S 13/931 (2013.01); G01S 17/86 (2020.01); G01S 17/89 (2013.01); G01S 17/931 (2020.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); B60W 30/09 (2013.01); B60W 30/0956 (2013.01); B60W 60/0015 (2020.02); B60W 60/0027 (2020.02); B60W 2420/403 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20076 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20084 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30241 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30261 (2013.01);
Abstract

Tracking an object included in a reflective surface by detecting the reflective surface included in one or more images included in a plurality of images by determining a location of the reflective surface in pixel coordinates and tracking the location of the reflective surface in the plurality of images. Real world locations of the object can be determined based on attributes of the reflective surface including a geometric class, extrinsic properties that relate the reflective surface to an environment, intrinsic properties describing the reflective surface without referring to the environment and calibration properties of the sensor.


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