Waymo LLC patent applications on January 30th, 2025
Patent Applications by Waymo LLC on January 30th, 2025
Waymo LLC: 3 patent applications
Waymo LLC has applied for patents in the areas of G01T1/24 (1), G01S17/90 (1), G01T1/20 (1), G01T1/208 (1), G01T1/29 (1) G01T1/248 (1), G02B6/125 (1), G06T7/73 (1)
With keywords such as: section, substrate, direction, device, waveguide, outputs, spads, extends, lengthwise, and pose in patent application abstracts.
Patent Applications by Waymo LLC
20250035800. Programmable SiPM Arrays_simplified_abstract_(waymo llc)
Inventor(s): Simon Verghese of Mountain View CA (US) for waymo llc, Caner Onal of Palo Alto CA (US) for waymo llc, Pierre-Yves Droz of Mountain View CA (US) for waymo llc
IPC Code(s): G01T1/24, G01S17/90, G01T1/20, G01T1/208, G01T1/29
CPC Code(s): G01T1/248
Abstract: the present disclosure relates to devices, systems, and methods relating to configurable silicon photomultiplier (sipm) devices. an example device includes a substrate and a plurality of single photon avalanche diodes (spads) coupled to the substrate. the device also includes a plurality of outputs coupled to the substrate and a plurality of electrical components coupled to the substrate. the plurality of electrical components are configured to selectively connect the plurality of spads to the plurality of outputs by selecting which output of the plurality of outputs is connected to each spad of the plurality of spads and to thereby define a plurality of sipms in the device such that each sipm of the plurality of sipms comprises a respective set of one or more spads connected to a respective output of the plurality of outputs.
20250035844. Optical Signal Routing Devices and Systems_simplified_abstract_(waymo llc)
Inventor(s): James Dunphy of San Jose CA (US) for waymo llc, David Hutchison of Santa Clara CA (US) for waymo llc, Pierre-Yves Droz of Los Altos CA (US) for waymo llc, Yeh-Jiun Tung of Mountain View CA (US) for waymo llc
IPC Code(s): G02B6/125, G01S7/481, G01S17/10, G01S17/42, G02B6/122, G02B6/42
CPC Code(s): G02B6/125
Abstract: one example lidar device comprises a substrate and a waveguide disposed on the substrate. a first section of the waveguide extends lengthwise on the substrate in a first direction. a second section of the waveguide extends lengthwise on the substrate in a second direction different than the first direction. a third section of the waveguide extends lengthwise on the substrate in a third direction different than the second direction. the second section extends lengthwise between the first section and the second section. the lidar device also comprises a light emitter configured to emit light. the waveguide is configured to guide the light inside the first section toward the second section, inside the second section toward the third section, and inside the third section away from the second section.
20250037303. MULTI-MODAL 3-D POSE ESTIMATION_simplified_abstract_(waymo llc)
Inventor(s): Jingxiao Zheng of San Jose CA (US) for waymo llc, Xinwei Shi of Cupertino CA (US) for waymo llc, Alexander Gorban of Scotts Valley CA (US) for waymo llc, Junhua Mao of Palo Alto CA (US) for waymo llc, Andre Liang Cornman of San Francisco CA (US) for waymo llc, Yang Song of San Jose CA (US) for waymo llc, Ting Liu of Los Angeles CA (US) for waymo llc, Ruizhongtai Qi of Mountain View CA (US) for waymo llc, Yin Zhou of San Jose CA (US) for waymo llc, Congcong Li of Cupertino CA (US) for waymo llc, Dragomir Anguelov of San Francisco CA (US) for waymo llc
IPC Code(s): G06T7/73, G06F18/214, G06F18/25, G06V20/58
CPC Code(s): G06T7/73
Abstract: methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for estimating a 3-d pose of an object of interest from image and point cloud data. in one aspect, a method includes obtaining an image of an environment; obtaining a point cloud of a three-dimensional region of the environment; generating a fused representation of the image and the point cloud; and processing the fused representation using a pose estimation neural network and in accordance with current values of a plurality of pose estimation network parameters to generate a pose estimation network output that specifies, for each of multiple keypoints, a respective estimated position in the three-dimensional region of the environment.
