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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2023
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Marin Kobilarov, Baltimore, MD (US);
Linjun Zhang, Foster City, CA (US);
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for identifying relevant objects in an environment based on artificial paths are described herein. A vehicle may receive and/or analyze sensor data of an environment to identify an object. The vehicle may determine whether the object is located within a region of interest by projecting the object into discretized map data and determining which cell of the discretized map data the object is located within. Based on the object being located within a cell corresponding to a region of interest, the vehicle can generate an artificial path (e.g., a spatial representation of potential movements of the object) for the object which may be used to determine whether the vehicle and the object overlap (e.g., spatially and temporally) at any cell within an occupancy map. In such cases, the vehicle may generate a relevance score for the object which may be used to control the vehicle.