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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2015
Applicant:
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Gokce Dane, San Diego, CA (US);
Vasudev Bhaskaran, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0051 (2013.01); G06K 9/00791 (2013.01); G06K 9/00798 (2013.01); G06T 7/0081 (2013.01); G06K 9/6292 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10028 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30256 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method performed by an electronic device is described. The method includes performing vertical processing of a depth map to determine a vertical non-obstacle estimation. The method also includes performing horizontal processing of the depth map to determine a horizontal non-obstacle estimation. The method further includes combining the vertical non-obstacle estimation and the horizontal non-obstacle estimation. The method additionally includes generating a non-obstacle map based on the combination of the vertical and horizontal non-obstacle estimations.