ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,257, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).
"Reducing environmental interference from images" was invented by Daniel Flores Tapia (Fairfield, Calif.) and Jace Artichoker (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology determines noise in an image of a representation of an environment around an autonomous vehicle (AV). A sensor system receives a first image that represents an environment around the AV including at least one object that may be obscured by environmental conditions. The first image is analyzed to determine if pixels in the first image represent noise from the envir...