ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,464, issued on March 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Radar map layer in a crowdsourced HD map" was invented by Mandar Narsinh Kulkarni (South Plainfield, N.J.), Jubin Jose (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Muryong Kim (Madison, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Creating and updating an accurate radar map layer for HD map using crowdsourcing may comprise a vehicle obtaining radar data and filtering the radar data on a frame-by-frame basis. In some embodiments, additional filtering may be made on a batch of frames. The vehicle can then transmit the filtered radar data responsive to a determination that a confidence of a posi...