Waymo LLC patent applications on September 12th, 2024
Patent Applications by Waymo LLC on September 12th, 2024
Waymo LLC: 4 patent applications
Waymo LLC has applied for patents in the areas of B60W60/00 (1), B60W50/00 (1), G01C21/00 (1), G05D1/00 (1), B60W30/00 (1) B60W60/0027 (1), G01C21/3889 (1), G05D1/0088 (1), G06T7/20 (1)
With keywords such as: object, information, computing, track, detections, device, generating, objects, respective, and vehicle in patent application abstracts.
Patent Applications by Waymo LLC
Inventor(s): Ari Seff of Mountain View CA (US) for waymo llc, Rami Al-Rfou of Menlo Park CA (US) for waymo llc, Angelo Brian Cera of Mountain View CA (US) for waymo llc, Nigamaa Nayakanti of San Jose CA (US) for waymo llc, Aurick Qikun Zhou of San Francisco CA (US) for waymo llc, Mason Ng of Palo Alto CA (US) for waymo llc, Benjamin Sapp of Marina del Rey CA (US) for waymo llc, Dian Chen of Auxtin TX (US) for waymo llc, Khaled Refaat of Mountain View CA (US) for waymo llc
IPC Code(s): B60W60/00, B60W50/00
CPC Code(s): B60W60/0027
Abstract: methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating trajectory predictions for one or more agents in an environment. in one aspect, a method comprises: obtaining scene context data characterizing a scene in an environment at a current time point and generating a respective predicted future trajectory for each of a plurality of agents in the scene at the current time point by sampling a sequence of discrete motion tokens that defines a joint future trajectory for the plurality of agents using a trajectory prediction neural network that is conditioned on the scene context data.
Inventor(s): Dmytro Tymofieiev of Sunnyvale CA (US) for waymo llc, Chenyue Cook of San Francisco CA (US) for waymo llc, Joshua Jacob of San Francisco CA (US) for waymo llc, Zekai Li of Belmont CA (US) for waymo llc
IPC Code(s): G01C21/00
CPC Code(s): G01C21/3889
Abstract: aspects of the disclosure provide methods of generating blockages in map information for use by a fleet of autonomous vehicles. for instance, information from an autonomous vehicle of the fleet may be received by one or more processors of a server computing system. that the received information meets at least one set of rules for generating blockages may be determined. based on the determination that the received information meets at least one set of rules for generating blockages, blockage data identifying a specific area of a blockage may be generated. the blockage data may be sent to the autonomous vehicles of the fleet in order to enable the autonomous vehicles of the fleet to avoid the specific area of the blockage.
20240302838. Use of Detected Objects for Image Processing_simplified_abstract_(waymo llc)
Inventor(s): David Ian Ferguson of Mountain View CA (US) for waymo llc, Abhijit Ogale of Mountain View CA (US) for waymo llc
IPC Code(s): G05D1/00, B60W30/00, G01S13/02, G01S17/02, G01S19/13, G06V20/58
CPC Code(s): G05D1/0088
Abstract: methods and systems for the use of detected objects for image processing are described. a computing device autonomously controlling a vehicle may receive images of the environment surrounding the vehicle from an image-capture device coupled to the vehicle. in order to process the images, the computing device may receive information indicating characteristics of objects in the images from one or more sources coupled to the vehicle. examples of sources may include radar, lidar, a map, sensors, a global positioning system (gps), or other cameras. the computing device may use the information indicating characteristics of the objects to process received images, including determining the approximate locations of objects within the images. further, while processing the image, the computing device may use information from sources to determine portions of the image to focus upon that may allow the computing device to determine a control strategy based on portions of the image.
20240303827. STATEFUL AND END-TO-END MULTI-OBJECT TRACKING_simplified_abstract_(waymo llc)
Inventor(s): Longlong Jing of Mountain View CA (US) for waymo llc, Ruichi Yu of Mountain View CA (US) for waymo llc, Xu Chen of Livermore CA (US) for waymo llc, Zhengli Zhao of Sunnyvale CA (US) for waymo llc, Shiwei Sheng of Saratoga CA (US) for waymo llc
IPC Code(s): G06T7/20, G01S17/89, G06V10/44
CPC Code(s): G06T7/20
Abstract: methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for tracking objects in an environment across time. in one aspect, a method comprises: receiving a set of current object detections, each characterizing features of a respective detected object; maintaining data, including track query feature representations, that identifies one or more object tracks (each associated with respective earlier object detections classified as characterizing the same object; and, for each object track: (i) selecting a subset of the current object detections as candidate object detections for the object track, (ii) generating a respective association score for each candidate object detection based on an input derived from the candidate object detections and the track query feature representation for the object track using a track-detection interaction neural network, and (iii) determining whether to associate any of the current object detections with the object track based on the respective association scores.
