US 12,283,024 B2
Super-resolution radar for autonomous vehicles
Matthew Paul Harrison, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Assigned to BDCM A2 LLC, Dover, DE (US)
Filed by BDCM A2 LLC, Dover, DE (US)
Filed on Feb. 21, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/112,477.
Application 18/112,477 is a continuation of application No. 16/984,972, filed on Aug. 4, 2020, granted, now 11,587,204.
Application 16/984,972 is a continuation of application No. 16/447,032, filed on Jun. 20, 2019, granted, now 10,739,438, issued on Aug. 11, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/687,790, filed on Jun. 20, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0196510 A1, Jun. 22, 2023
Int. Cl. G06T 3/4061 (2024.01); G01S 13/89 (2006.01); G01S 17/89 (2020.01); G06N 3/08 (2023.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06T 3/60 (2006.01); G06T 5/50 (2006.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01)
CPC G06T 3/4061 (2013.01) [G01S 13/89 (2013.01); G01S 17/89 (2013.01); G06N 3/08 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06T 3/60 (2013.01); G06T 5/50 (2013.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01); G06T 2207/10044 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20016 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20084 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20224 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
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1. An autonomous driving system, comprising:
a sensor fusion module;
a system controller;
a memory;
a radar controller adapted for dynamic control of steerable beams focusing on one or multiple portions of vehicle field of view and is adapted to detect and identify targets, wherein:
the radar controller is adapted to interact with the sensor fusion module,
the radar controller is configured to implement a super-resolution network configured to receive radar data with a first resolution and produce radar data with a second resolution different from the first resolution using one or more first neural networks trained on a dataset comprising radar training data and ground truth densified data time-synchronized with the radar training data, and
the radar controller is configured to dynamically control one or more steerable beams based on detection and identification of targets with the radar data with the second resolution.