US 12,266,191 B2
Methods of processing and generating image data in a connectionist network
Farzin G. Rajabizadeh, Wuppertal (DE); Narges Milani, Düsseldorf (DE); Daniel Schugk, Cologne (DE); Lutz Roese-Koerner, Remscheid (DE); Yu Su, Wuppertal (DE); and Dennis Mueller, Moers (DE)
Assigned to APTIV TECHNOLOGIES AG, Schaffhausen (CH)
Filed by Aptiv Technologies AG, Schaffhausen (CH)
Filed on May 3, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/661,913.
Application 17/661,913 is a continuation of application No. 16/203,124, filed on Nov. 28, 2018, granted, now 11,379,746.
Claims priority of application No. 17208223 (EP), filed on Dec. 18, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0261670 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. G06T 7/80 (2017.01); G06N 3/045 (2023.01); G06N 3/063 (2023.01); G06N 3/08 (2023.01); G06N 7/00 (2023.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06V 10/44 (2022.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01)
CPC G06V 20/582 (2022.01) [G06N 3/045 (2023.01); G06N 3/063 (2013.01); G06N 3/08 (2013.01); G06N 7/00 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06V 10/454 (2022.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01); G06V 20/584 (2022.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving, at a data input of a plurality of units of a connectionist network, a plurality of input picture elements, the plurality of input picture elements representing a raw image of a traffic environment including one or more traffic signs acquired by a multi-channel image sensor, the image sensor being a red-clear-clear-clear sensor;
processing, by a first unit of the plurality of units, the plurality of input picture elements with a first set of processing parameters to generate a first portion of output picture elements, the first portion of output picture elements representing a first channel of the multi-channel image sensor;
processing, by one or more additional units of the plurality of units, the plurality of input picture elements with at least a second set of processing parameters to generate one or more additional portions of output picture elements, the one or more additional portions of output picture elements representing one or more additional channels of the multi-channel image sensor;
outputting, at a data output of the plurality of units of the connectionist network, the first portion of output picture elements and the one or more additional portions of output picture elements, the first portion of output picture elements and the one or more additional portions of output picture elements being representative of the raw image; and
training, using the first portion of output picture elements and the one or more additional portions of output picture elements, another connectionist network to detect the one or more traffic signs in other raw images of other traffic environments.