US Patent Issued to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS on Jan. 13 for "Map-assisted target detection for sensor calibration" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,223, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Map-assisted target detection for sensor calibration" was invented by Syed Aziz Enam (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and computer-readable media for extrinsically calibrating sensors on an autonomous vehicle (AV) by leveraging map data. By leveraging offline data, such as the map data on the AV, the extrinsic calibration of the sensors may be performed on road to update or check previous calibrations. Static objects are determined in the scene by leveraging a map with a semantic map layer and sensors are extrinsically cal...