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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:
Jul. 07, 2026

Filed:

Dec. 15, 2023
Applicant:

Waymo Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Daniel Ho, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Alper Ayvaci, San Jose, CA (US);

Vasiliy Igorevich Karasev, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jiakai Zhang, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignee:

Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/41 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G01S 13/86 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/417 (2013.01); B60W 60/001 (2020.02); G01S 13/867 (2013.01); B60W 2420/403 (2013.01); B60W 2420/408 (2024.01); B60W 2555/60 (2020.02); B60W 2556/40 (2020.02);
Abstract

The disclosed systems and techniques facilitate efficient detection and classification of traffic signs in driving environments. The disclosed techniques include, obtaining, using a sensing system of a vehicle a first set of perspective camera images of an environment and a second set of radar images of the environment. The techniques further include generating, using a first neural network, one or more camera features characterizing the first set of images, generating, using a second neural network, one or more radar features characterizing the second set of images, and processing the one or more camera features and the one or more radar features to obtain an identification of one or more traffic signs in the environment.


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