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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2008
John B. Mckitterick, Columbia, MD (US);
John B. McKitterick, Columbia, MD (US);
Honeywell International Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system includes at least one sensor device configured to transmit a first detection signal over a first spatial region and a second detection signal over a second spatial region. The second region has a first sub-region in common with the first region. The system further includes a processing device configured to assign a first occupancy value to a first cell in an evidence grid. The first cell represents the first sub-region, and the first occupancy value characterizes whether an object has been detected by the first detection signal as being present in the first sub-region. The processing device is further configured to calculate, based on the first and second detection signals, the probability that the first occupancy value accurately characterizes the presence of the object in the first sub-region, and generate a data representation of the first sub-region based on the probability calculation.