Image fusion for autonomous vehicle operation
US11823460B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 14, 2019 |
| Grant date | Nov 21, 2023 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 7, 2041 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB60R2300/303
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Devices, systems and methods for fusing scenes from real-time image feeds from on-vehicle cameras in autonomous vehicles to reduce redundancy of the information processed to enable real-time autonomous operation are described. One example of a method for improving perception in an autonomous vehicle includes receiving a plurality of cropped images, wherein each of the plurality of cropped images comprises one or more bounding boxes that correspond to one or more objects in a corresponding cropped image; identifying, based on the metadata in the plurality of cropped images, a first bounding box in a first cropped image and a second bounding box in a second cropped image, wherein the first and second bounding boxes correspond to a common object; and fusing the metadata corresponding to the common object from the first cropped image and the second cropped image to generate an output result for the common object.
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