Virtual beams for identification of edge and planar points in lidar point cloud obtained with vehicle lidar system
US12270908B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Nov 1, 2021 |
| Grant date | Apr 8, 2025 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 21, 2043 |
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- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB60W2420/408
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A system in a vehicle includes a lidar system to transmit incident light and receive reflections from one or more objects as a point cloud of points. The system also includes processing circuitry to identify planar points and to identify edge points of the point cloud. Each set of planar points forms a linear pattern and each edge point is between two sets of planar points, and the processing circuitry identifies each point of the points of the point cloud as being within a virtual beam among a set of virtual beams. Each virtual beam of the set of virtual beams representing a horizontal band of the point cloud.
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