Waymo LLC patent applications on February 6th, 2025
Patent Applications by Waymo LLC on February 6th, 2025
Waymo LLC: 5 patent applications
Waymo LLC has applied for patents in the areas of B60W60/00 (2), G06V20/58 (2), B60W30/18 (1), G06T7/20 (1), H01F27/30 (1) B60W30/18163 (1), B60W60/001 (1), G05D1/0038 (1), G06T19/006 (1), H01F27/06 (1)
With keywords such as: vehicle, speed, computing, device, camera, image, portion, ess, content, and techniques in patent application abstracts.
Patent Applications by Waymo LLC
20250042407. Lane Adjustment Techniques for Slow Lead Agents_simplified_abstract_(waymo llc)
Inventor(s): Pablo Abad of San Francisco CA (US) for waymo llc, Karan Rajen Parikh of Mountain View CA (US) for waymo llc, Kang Li of Sammamish WA (US) for waymo llc, David Garber of Mountain View CA (US) for waymo llc, Tony Grue of Thousand Oaks CA (US) for waymo llc, Khawaja Waqee Khalid of Mountain View CA (US) for waymo llc
IPC Code(s): B60W30/18, B60W30/16, B60W40/04, B60W60/00, G06V20/58
CPC Code(s): B60W30/18163
Abstract: example embodiments relate to lane adjustment techniques for slow lead agents. a vehicle computing system may use sensor data depicting the surrounding environment to detect when another vehicle is traveling in front of the vehicle at a speed that is less than a threshold minimum speed. if the other vehicle fails to increase speed above the minimum speed, the computing system may determine whether to change lanes to avoid the other vehicle based on speed data for other lanes. in some implementations, the computing system assigns penalties to lane segments surrounding the vehicle based on speed data for the different lane segments. for instance, the path finding system for the vehicle can use penalties and speed data to determine efficient routes that safely circumvent slow agents.
Inventor(s): Samuel Liu of Mountain View CA (US) for waymo llc, Jennifer Taylor of Palo Alto CA (US) for waymo llc, Ananya Misra of Mountain View CA (US) for waymo llc
IPC Code(s): B60W60/00, G10L15/08, G10L15/20, G10L15/22, G10L25/51
CPC Code(s): B60W60/001
Abstract: the described aspects and implementations enable privacy-respecting detection, separation, and localization of sounds in vehicle environments. the techniques include obtaining, using audio detector(s) of a vehicle, a sound recording that includes a plurality of elemental sounds (ess) in a driving environment of the vehicle, and processing, using a sound separation model, the sound recording to separate individual ess of the plurality of ess. the techniques further include identifying a content of individual ess and causing a driving path of the vehicle to be modified in view of the identified content of the individual ess. further techniques include rendering speech imperceptibly by redacting temporal portions of the speech, using sound recognition models to identify and discard recordings of speech, and driving at speeds that exceed threshold speeds at which speech becomes imperceptible from noise masking.
Inventor(s): Collin Winter of San Francisco CA (US) for waymo llc, Vishay Nihalani of San Francisco CA (US) for waymo llc
IPC Code(s): G05D1/00, G06T7/70, G06V20/58, H04W4/40
CPC Code(s): G05D1/0038
Abstract: example embodiments relate to techniques for enabling one or more systems of a vehicle (e.g., an autonomous vehicle) to request remote assistance to help the vehicle navigate in an environment. a computing device may be configured to receive a request for assistance from a vehicle. the request may include an image frame representative of a portion of an environment. the computing device may also be configured to initiate display of a graphical user interface to visually represent the image frame. further, the computing device may determine a bounding region for the image frame. the bounding region may be associated with one or more objects in the image frame. additionally, the computing device may be configured to receive, via the gui, an input that includes an object identifier, and associate the object identifier with each of the one or more objects in the bounding region.
Inventor(s): Dillon Cower of Woodinville WA (US) for waymo llc, Nirmal Patel of Sunnyvale CA (US) for waymo llc
IPC Code(s): G06T19/00, G06T7/20, G06T15/20, G06T19/20
CPC Code(s): G06T19/006
Abstract: aspects of the disclosure provide for generating a visualization of a three-dimensional (3d) world view from the perspective of a camera of a vehicle. for example, images of a scene captured by a camera of the vehicle and 3d content for the scene may be received. a virtual camera model for the camera of the vehicle may be identified. a set of matrices may be generated using the virtual camera model. the set of matrices may be applied to the 3d content to create a 3d world view. the visualization may be generated using the 3d world view as an overlay with the image, and the visualization provides a real-world image from the perspective of the camera of the vehicle with one or more graphical overlays of the 3d content.
Inventor(s): Robert Lockwood of Mountain View CA (US) for waymo llc, Kelvin Kwong of Mountain View CA (US) for waymo llc
IPC Code(s): H01F27/06, G01S7/481, H01F27/24, H01F27/26, H01F27/30, H01F38/18
CPC Code(s): H01F27/06
Abstract: an example device includes a mounting structure including a first material having a first coefficient of thermal expansion (cte). the mounting structure includes a center portion and an outer portion. the device further includes a magnetic core for an electrical component that is coupled to the outer portion of the mounting structure. the magnetic core includes a second material having a second cte. the magnetic core is split into a plurality of sections separated by spaces extending from the center portion to an outer edge of the outer portion. each of the plurality of sections is separately coupled to the mounting structure, and each of the plurality of sections is connected to the electrical component.
