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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2022
GM Cruise Holdings Llc, San Francisco, CA (US);
Glenn Sweeney, Sebastopol, CA (US);
Zhanping Xu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Brandon Seilhan, San Ramon, CA (US);
Ryan Suess, Seattle, WA (US);
Alexander Lesnick, Alexandria, VA (US);
Kartheek Chandu, Dublin, CA (US);
Ralph Spickermann, Redwood City, CA (US);
GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Various technologies described herein pertain to mitigating motion misalignment of a time-of-flight sensor system and/or generating transverse velocity estimate data utilizing the time-of-flight sensor system. A stream of frames outputted by a sensor of the time-of-flight sensor system is received. A pair of non-adjacent frames in the stream of frames is identified. Computed optical flow data is calculated based on the pair of non-adjacent frames in the stream of frames. Estimated optical flow data for at least one differing frame can be generated based on the computed optical flow data, and the at least one differing frame can be realigned based on the estimated optical flow data. Moreover, transverse velocity estimate data for an object can be generated based on the computed optical flow data.