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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2022
Applicant:
Embark Trucks, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventors:
Anshuman Patnaik, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gilbran D. Alvarez, Santa Maria, CA (US);
Soheil Koushan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Grady D. Williams, Oakland, CA (US);
Assignee:
EMBARK TRUCKS, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2022.01); B60W 40/06 (2012.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06V 20/588 (2022.01); B60W 40/06 (2013.01); B60W 2420/403 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method including receiving an image of a first lane of a road, the image being captured by a first sensor; defining the first lane as a set of N ordered points; representing the first lane by a combination of N ordered points and a predefined number of types of lane components, C; generating images, each image representing one of the types of lane components; and combining the generated images to generate a topology representation for the first lane.