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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:
Jan. 20, 2026

Filed:

Jun. 29, 2020
Applicant:

Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Rohith Pesala, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Yu Zhang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Lin Yang, San Carlos, CA (US);

Assignee:

NVIDIA CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/30 (2006.01); G01P 13/00 (2006.01); G01S 7/481 (2006.01); G01S 17/89 (2020.01); G01S 17/931 (2020.01); G01S 19/39 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/30 (2013.01); G01P 13/00 (2013.01); G01S 7/4817 (2013.01); G01S 17/89 (2013.01); G01S 17/931 (2020.01); G01S 19/39 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to an aspect of an embodiment, operations may comprise accessing a map of a region. The map may comprise a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud comprising points of the region. Each of the points may comprise a pixel that comprises a red channel, a green channel, a blue channel, and intensity channel, and a height channel. The operations may also comprise identifying a set of points on the ground in the 3D point cloud. The operations may also comprise providing the set of points as input to a deep learning model. The operations may also comprise determining, using the deep learning model, whether each of the set of points is within a ground feature. The operations may also comprise storing, in the map, information regarding the ground feature in the map of the region.


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