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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2022
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sever Ioan Topan, Burnaby, CA;
Karen Yan Ming Leung, Los Altos, CA (US);
Yuxiao Chen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Pritish Tupekar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Edward Fu Schmerling, Los Altos, CA (US);
Hans Jonas Nilsson, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Michael Cox, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Marco Pavone, Stanford, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In various examples, techniques for determining perception zones for object detection are described. For instance, a system may use a dynamic model associated with an ego-machine, a dynamic model associated with an object, and one or more possible interactions between the ego-machine and the object to determine a perception zone. The system may then perform one or more processes using the perception zone. For instance, if the system is validating a perception system of the ego-machine, the system may determine whether a detection error associated with the object is a safety-critical error based on whether the object is located within the perception zone. Additionally, if the system is executing within the ego-machine, the system may determine whether the object is a safety-critical object based on whether the object is located within the perception zone.