Low-level sensor fusion

US10317901B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Mentor Graphics Development (Deutschland) GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Rainer Oder · Villingen-Schwenningen, DE
• Andreas Erich Geiger · Naples, US
• Ljubo Mercep · Hersbruck, DE
• Matthias Pollach · Hersbruck, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 6, 2016
• Grant date: Jun 11, 2019
• Expiry date: Oct 6, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06V20/56
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

This application discloses a computing system to implement low-level sensor fusion in an assisted or automated driving system of a vehicle. The low-level sensor fusion can include receiving raw measurement data from sensors in the vehicle and temporally aligning the raw measurement data based on a time of capture. The low-level sensor fusion can include spatially aligning measurement coordinate fields of the sensors into an environmental coordinate field based, at least in part, on where the sensors are mounted in the vehicle, and then populating the environmental coordinate field with raw measurement data captured by the sensors based on the spatial alignment of the measurement coordinate fields to the environmental coordinate field. The low-level sensor fusion can detect at least one detection event or object based, at least in part, on the raw measurement data from multiple sensors as populated in the environmental coordinate field.