Waymo LLC patent applications on April 10th, 2025
Patent Applications by Waymo LLC on April 10th, 2025
Waymo LLC: 4 patent applications
Waymo LLC has applied for patents in the areas of B60W60/00 (2), G06T7/00 (1), H04N23/73 (1), H04N23/72 (1), H04N23/61 (1) B60W60/00253 (1), G06F11/1004 (1), G06N3/063 (1), G06V20/584 (1)
With keywords such as: images, vehicle, data, camera, multiple, location, code, image, integrated, and autonomous in patent application abstracts.
Patent Applications by Waymo LLC
Inventor(s): Mishika Vora of Hayward CA US for waymo llc
IPC Code(s): B60W60/00, B60H1/00, B60W10/30, G01C21/34, G01C21/36, G08G1/00
CPC Code(s): B60W60/00253
Abstract: aspects of the disclosure provide for arranging trips for autonomous vehicles. for instance, a request for a trip may be received by one or more processors of one or more server computing devices. the request may identify an initial location. a weather condition at the initial location may be identified. one or more internal vehicle state conditions and one or more priorities for pulling over may be determined based on the weather condition. a second location may be determined based on the one or more priorities and the initial location. dispatch instructions may be provided to an autonomous vehicle, the dispatch instructions identifying the second location and the one or more internal vehicle state conditions in order to cause computing devices of the autonomous vehicle to control the autonomous vehicle to the second location and adjust internal vehicle state conditions based on the one or more internal vehicle state conditions.
Inventor(s): Kaushik Kannan of Mountain View CA US for waymo llc, David Sobel of Los Altos CA US for waymo llc
IPC Code(s): G06F11/10, G06F11/07, G06F11/30, G06F13/42
CPC Code(s): G06F11/1004
Abstract: example embodiments relate to low-overhead, bidirectional error checking for a serial peripheral interface. an example device includes an integrated circuit. the device also includes a serial peripheral interface (spi) with a master in slave out (miso) channel and a master out slave in (mosi) channel. the mosi channel is configured to receive a write address, payload data, and a forward error-checking code usable to identify data corruption within the write address or the payload data. the integrated circuit is configured to calculate and provide a reverse error-checking code usable to identify data corruption within the write address or the payload data. additionally, the integrated circuit is configured to compare the forward error-checking code to the reverse error-checking code. further, the integrated circuit is configured to write, to the write address if the forward error-checking code matches the reverse error-checking code, the payload data.
20250117640. HIGH BANDWIDTH CAMERA DATA TRANSMISSION_simplified_abstract_(waymo llc)
Inventor(s): Lucian Ion of Santa Clara CA US for waymo llc, Vlad Constantin Cardei of Redwood City CA US for waymo llc
IPC Code(s): G06N3/063, G06T7/00, G06V10/764, G06V10/82, G06V10/94
CPC Code(s): G06N3/063
Abstract: a method includes obtaining multiple images captured by pixel sensors of an image sensor, analyzing, using neural network circuitry integrated in the image sensor, the multiple images for object detection, generating, for each of the multiple images using the neural network circuitry integrated in the image sensor, neural network output data related to results of the analysis of the multiple images for object detection, and transmitting, from the image sensor, the neural network output data for each of the multiple images and image data for a subset of the multiple images instead of image data of each of the multiple images.
Inventor(s): Andreas Wendel of Mountain View CA US for waymo llc, Benjamin Ingram of Santa Clara CA US for waymo llc
IPC Code(s): H04N23/745, B60W60/00, H04N23/61, H04N23/72, H04N23/73, H04N23/76
CPC Code(s): G06V20/584
Abstract: the technology relates to camera systems for vehicles having an autonomous driving mode. an example system includes a first camera mounted on a vehicle in order to capture images of the vehicle's environment. the first camera has a first exposure time and being without an nd filter. the system also includes a second camera mounted on the vehicle in order to capture images of the vehicle's environment and having an nd filter. the system also includes one or more processors configured to capture images using the first camera and the first exposure time, capture images using the second camera and the second exposure time, use the images captured using the second camera to identify illuminated objects, use the images captured using the first camera to identify the locations of objects, and use the identified illuminated objects and identified locations of objects to control the vehicle in an autonomous driving mode.