Determining drivable free-space for autonomous vehicles

M Rankawat, J Yao, D Zhang, CC Chen - US Patent 11,537,139, 2022 - Google Patents
In various examples, sensor data may be received that represents a field of view of a sensor
of a vehicle located in a physical environment. The sensor data may be applied to a …

Generating labeled training instances for autonomous vehicles

JS Valois, T Pilarski, D Munoz - US Patent 11,403,492, 2022 - Google Patents
In techniques disclosed herein, machine learning models can be utilized in the control of
autonomous vehicle (s), where the machine learning models are trained using automatically …

Real-time detection of lanes and boundaries by autonomous vehicles

Y Xu, X Liu, CC Chen, C Parada, D Onofrio… - US Patent …, 2021 - Google Patents
In various examples, sensor data representative of an image of a field of view of a vehicle
sensor may be received and the sensor data may be applied to a machine learning model …

Safety procedure analysis for obstacle avoidance in autonomous vehicles

D Nister, HL Lee, J Ng, Y Wang - US Patent 11,079,764, 2021 - Google Patents
In various examples, a current claimed set of points representative of a volume in an
environment occupied by a vehicle at a time may be determined. A vehicle-occupied …

Intersection region detection and classification for autonomous machine applications

T Pham, BR Hervas, M Park, D Nister… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
In various examples, live perception from sensors of a vehicle may be leveraged to detect
and classify intersection contention areas in an environment of a vehicle in real-time or near …

Model checking for autonomous vehicles

DI Ferguson, DA Dolgov, C Urmson - US Patent 9,315,178, 2016 - Google Patents
In an example method, a vehicle configured to operate in an autonomous mode could
predict an output of the vehicle based on an input provided to control the vehicle and a state …

Combining multiple estimates of an environment into a consolidated estimate for an autonomous vehicle

DIF Ferguson, DH Silver - US Patent 9,224,053, 2015 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND Unless otherwise indicated herein, the materials described in this section
are not prior art to the claims in this application and are not admitted to be prior art by …

Verifying predicted trajectories using a grid-based approach

K Refaat, K Ding - US Patent 10,969,789, 2021 - Google Patents
Aspects of the disclosure provide for controlling a vehicle in an autonomous driving mode.
For instance, sensor data for an object as well as a plurality of predicted trajectories may be …

Training, testing, and verifying autonomous machines using simulated environments

C Farabet, J Zedlewski, Z Taylor, G Heinrich… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
In various examples, physical sensor data may be generated by a vehicle in a real-world
environment. The physical sensor data may be used to train deep neural networks (DNNs) …

Labeling autonomous vehicle data

JS Valois, E Eade - US Patent 11,829,143, 2023 - Google Patents
One or more instances of sensor data collected using an autonomous vehicle sensor suite
can be labeled using corresponding instance (s) of sensor data collected using an …