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US 11,144,769 B2Granted
Variable resolution sensors
AssigneePony AI Inc.
InventorsPeter G. Diehl, Robert Dingli, Cyrus Abari, Yui-Hong Matthias Tan
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Abstract
Provided herein is a system and method that acquires data and determines a driving action based on the data. The system comprises a processor configured to acquire data of nonuniform resolution over a field of view of the sensor, and a controller configured to determine a driving action of a vehicle based on the data, and perform the driving action.
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A system comprising:
- a sensor configured to acquire data of nonuniform resolution over a field of view of the sensor according to a pixel arrangement of the sensor;
- and
- one or more processors configured to:
- detect a presence of a feature in a particular region of the acquired data;
- dynamically increase a density of pixels corresponding to the particular region while leaving a density of pixels in an other region outside of the particular region unchanged to capture the feature at a higher resolution;
- determine a driving action of a vehicle based on the data;
- and
- perform the driving action.
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A method, comprising:
- acquiring data of nonuniform resolution, by one or more processors controlling a sensor, over a field of view of the sensor, the acquisition of the data including:
- detecting a presence of a feature in a particular region of the acquired data;
- dynamically increasing a density of pixels corresponding to the particular region while leaving a density of pixels in an other region outside of the particular region unchanged to capture the feature at a higher resolution;
- determining a driving action of a vehicle based on the data;
- and
- performing the driving action.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.