US Patent Issued to Woven by Toyota on Dec. 2 for "Systems and methods for estimating lane elevation for generating 3D maps" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,536, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Woven by Toyota Inc. (Tokyo).

"Systems and methods for estimating lane elevation for generating 3D maps" was invented by Alexander Christoph Schaefer (Fremont, Calif.) and Shunsho Kaku (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to estimating lane elevation using headings for generating three-dimensional (3D) maps. In one embodiment, a method includes augmenting positions of detected lane boundaries with headings of a vehicle from sensor data. The method also includes adding the headings to vertices of two-dimensional (2D) l...