Autonomous vehicle navigation
US11457558B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 13, 2020 |
| Grant date | Oct 4, 2022 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 15, 2040 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T2207/30252
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A lawn mower including a vision sensor configured to capture an image, a drive system configured to move the lawn mower at a velocity and configured to change the velocity, a processor connected to the vision sensor and the drive system, the processor comprising processing logic that includes a first movement threshold, the processor configured to divide the image into a plurality of image sections, categorize, for each image section, the image data, into one of mowable image data and unmowable image data, obtain, for each image section, a percentage of unmowable image data, and assign one of a first result value and a second result value to each section based on a comparison between the percentage with the first movement threshold.
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