US Patent Issued to Waymo on June 17 for "Association of camera images and radar data in autonomous vehicle applications" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,817, issued on June 17, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Association of camera images and radar data in autonomous vehicle applications" was invented by Ruichi Yu (Mountain View, Calif.), Shiwei Sheng (Cupertino, Calif.), Kang Li (Sammamish, Wash.) and Xu Chen (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described aspects and implementations enable fast and accurate object identification in autonomous vehicle (AV) applications by combining radar data with camera images. In one implementation, disclosed is a method and a system to perform the method that includes obtaining a radar image of a first hypotheti...