ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,059, issued on July 29, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Determining scene similarity" was invented by Eric Yan Tin Chu (San Jose, Calif.) and Andrew Glen Tsao (San Carlos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for analyzing driving scenarios are discussed herein. For example, techniques may include determining, based at least in part on log data representing a scenario of the vehicle operating in an environment, a plurality of frames of the scenario. For individual frames, the techniques may determine a respective set of discrete areas of the environment based on a respective position of the vehicle in th...