Identifying objects for display in a situational-awareness view of an autonomous-vehicle environment

US11080534B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Lyft, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Robert Earl Rasmusson, Jr. · San Francisco, US
• Taggart Matthiesen · San Francisco, US
• Craig Dehner · San Francisco, US
• Linda L. Dong · Altadena, US
• Frank Taehyun Yoo · San Francisco, US
• Karina van Schaardenburg · San Francisco, US
• John Tighe · San Francisco, US
• Matt Vitelli · San Francisco, US
• Jisi Guo · San Francisco, US
• Eli Guerron · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 14, 2017
• Grant date: Aug 3, 2021
• Expiry date: May 18, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06T2207/30261
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving autonomous-vehicle sensor data from a sensor array of an autonomous vehicle. The autonomous-vehicle sensor data indicates an object in an external environment of the autonomous vehicle. The method also includes accessing secondary data associated with the object from one or more secondary-data sources that are independent of the sensor array of the autonomous vehicle. The method also includes determining, based on the autonomous-vehicle sensor data and the secondary data, an object graphic to visually represent the object. The method also includes providing for display a visual representation of the external environment of the autonomous vehicle that includes the determined object graphic to visually represent the object.