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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2023
Torc Robotics, Inc., Blacksburg, VA (US);
Bin Jia, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Haseeb Chaudhry, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Torc Robotics, Inc., Blacksburg, VA (US);
Abstract
A method executed by a computing device of an autonomous vehicle includes (i) receiving first sensor data from a network of one or more sensors; (ii) generating a first prediction, based at least in part on the received first sensor data, for an object being associated with a first state with a first confidence value; (iii) receiving second sensor data from the network of one or more sensors after elapsing of time t after receiving the first sensor data; (iv) generating a second prediction, based at least in part on the received second sensor data, for the object being associated with a second state with a second confidence value; and (v) updating a state of the object in a hierarchical representation tree to be the first state or the second state based upon a higher confidence value between the first confidence value and the second confidence value.