Sensor Obstruction Detection And Mitigation

Patent №

US 11,479,213

Granted

2022-10-25

Filed 2017

Owner

ZOOX, INC.

Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15837953

A system may be configured to detect an obstruction on sensor at least partially obstructing or distorting a portion of the field of view of the sensor. The system may also be configured to mitigate the effects of the obstruction or at least partially remove the obstruction from the sensor. The system may be configured to receive one or more signals from a sensor configured to generate signals indicative of an environment, which may include one or more objects, in which the sensor is present. The system may be configured to determine, for example, classify, based at least in part on the one or more signals, an obstruction or distortion on a surface of the sensor, and initiate a response, based at least in part on the determination, to mitigate effects of the obstruction and/or at least partially remove the obstruction.

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AI classification

Vision1.00
Planning0.08
Machine learning0.01
Natural language0.01
Speech0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
AI hardware0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

ZOOX, INC.

assignment · 443570233

Assignors

KENTLEY-KLAY, TIMOTHY DAVID

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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