Waymo LLC patent applications on 2025-05-22
Patent Applications by Waymo LLC on May 22nd, 2025
Waymo LLC: 5 patent applications
Waymo LLC has applied for patents in the areas of B60W60/0015 ({specially adapted for safety}, 1), B60W60/0027 ({using trajectory prediction for other traffic participants}, 1), G01S7/4008 ({of transmitters}, 1), G06V10/82 (IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING, 1), G08G1/096805 (Systems involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle, 1)
With keywords such as: motion, aspects, implementations, present, disclosure, address, shortcomings, existing, technology, enabling in patent application abstracts.
Top Inventors:
- Nicholas Armstrong-Crews of Mountain View CA US (1 patents)
- Mingcheng Chen of Sunnyvale CA US (1 patents)
- Yu Ouyang of Menlo Park CA US (1 patents)
- Daniel Ho of Santa Clara CA US (1 patents)
- Alper Ayvaci of San Jose CA US (1 patents)
Patent Applications by Waymo LLC
Abstract: aspects and implementations of the present disclosure address shortcomings of the existing technology by enabling motion pattern-assisted object classification of objects in an environment of an autonomous vehicle (av) by obtaining, from a sensing system of the av, a plurality of return points, each return point comprising one or more velocity values and one or more coordinates of a reflecting region that reflects a signal emitted by the sensing system, identifying an association of the plurality of return points with an object in an environment of the av, identifying, in view of the one or more velocity values of at least some of the plurality of return points, a type of the object or a type of a motion of the object, and causing a driving path of the av to be determined in view of the identified type of the object.
20250162618. TRAJECTORY PREDICTION MULTI-SENSOR FUSION (Waymo LLC)
Abstract: methods and systems for predicting a trajectory an autonomous vehicle (av) are disclosed. a method includes generating, based on sensor data from a sensing system of the av, one or more embeddings, generating, using a machine learning model (mlm) and the one or more embeddings, one or more predicted future trajectories for the av, and causing, using the one or more predicted future trajectories, a planning system of the av to generate an update to a current trajectory of the av.
20250164605. Methods Systems Transmit Beam Agnostic Radar Calibration (Waymo LLC)
Abstract: example embodiments relate to techniques and systems for transmit beam agnostic radar calibration. a computing system can transmit each transmit antenna element of a radar to individually transmit electromagnetic energy according to a first transmit beam pattern and generate data representing a collection pattern based on reflections of the electromagnetic energy transmitted according to the first transmit beam pattern. the computing system can also synthesize, using the data representing the collection pattern, a second transmit beam pattern that differs from the first transmit beam pattern and estimate a mutual coupling matrix for processing reflections of electromagnetic energy transmitted according to the second transmit beam pattern. the computing system can then generate, by the computing system and based on the mutual coupling matrix, a model for operating the radar onboard a vehicle. the model can enable a vehicle radar system having one or more radars that match the radar to transmit and receive electromagnetic energy according to the first transmit beam pattern and the second transmit beam pattern.
20250166366. SCENE TOKENIZATION MOTION PREDICTION (Waymo LLC)
Abstract: methods, systems, and apparatus for predicting future trajectories of agents in an environment. in one aspect, a system comprises one or more computers configured to receive sensor data of an environment having one or more agents. the system decomposes the sensor data into a plurality of scene elements in the environment, and the system generates multiple tokens including a respective token for each respective scene element of the multiple scene elements in the environment. the system processes the multiple tokens using a decoder model to generate a respective predicted trajectory for the one or more agents in the environment.
Abstract: example embodiments relate to techniques and systems for exchanging spectrum utilization data for radio frequency interference (rfi) mitigation and avoidance. a system can receive rfi data and location data from vehicles or infrastructure locations with the rfi data representing rfi parameters estimated by each vehicle during navigation or by each infrastructure location. the system can aggregate the rfi data into a representation based on the location data with the representation conveying a power level and frequency sub-band for rfi detected at multiple locations. the system can then obtain subsequent locations from vehicles and provide data from the representation to the vehicles based on the locations. in some cases, the system can also provide mitigation instructions to vehicles, such as waveform parameters, frequency bands, polarization, and other adjustments that help avoid rfi. the system can also reroute vehicles to avoid areas with particularly high rfi.