US Patent Issued to Waymo on Dec. 16 for "Vision-based detection and classification of traffic lights" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,691, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Vision-based detection and classification of traffic lights" was invented by Andreas Wendel (Mountain View, Calif.) and David Ian Franklin Ferguson (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to an autonomous vehicle having a vehicle control system. The vehicle control system includes an image processing system. The image processing system receives an image that includes a plurality of image portions. The image processing system also calculates a score for each image portion. The score indicates a level of confiden...