US Patent Issued to Waymo on Nov. 25 for "Privacy-respecting detection and localization of sounds in autonomous driving applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,466, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Privacy-respecting detection and localization of sounds in autonomous driving applications" was invented by Samuel Liu (Mountain View, Calif.), Jennifer Taylor (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Ananya Misra (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described aspects and implementations enable privacy-respecting detection, separation, and localization of sounds in vehicle environments. The techniques include obtaining, using audio detector(s) of a vehicle, a sound recording that includes a plurality of elemental sounds (ESs) in a driving environment of t...