ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,184, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Woven by Toyota Inc. (Tokyo).
"System and method for unstructured lane estimation" was invented by Alexander C. Schaefer (Fremont, Calif.), Jose Felix Ladeia Rodrigues (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Shunsho Kaku (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed herein for performing unstructured lane estimation. In one example, unstructured lane estimation involves the steps of receiving an overhead representation of a region and a rasterized trace generated from sensors of a vehicle traveling in the region and outputting, using a machine learning model, probabili...