US 12,456,312 B1
Occupancy estimation system for a vehicle
Michael Baltaxe, Kfar Saba (IL); Ron Hecht, Raanana (IL); Omer Tsimhoni, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US); Ariel Telpaz, Givat Haim Meuhad (IL); Gershon Celniker, Netanya (IL); and Dan Levi, Ganei Tikvah (IL)
Assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC, Detroit, MI (US)
Filed by GM Global Technology Operations LLC, Detroit, MI (US)
Filed on Apr. 24, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/644,979.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06V 20/59 (2022.01)
CPC G06V 20/593 (2022.01) [G06F 3/013 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method when executed by data processing hardware causes the data processing hardware to perform operations comprising:
generating, at an occupancy estimation network, an occupancy probability at one or more voxels;
tracking, via a camera system, a gaze of an occupant;
identifying, based on the tracked gaze, an object of interest;
determining a gaze direction of the occupant based on one or more of the tracked gaze and the identified object of interest;
generating, via an occupancy estimation application, a gaze saliency map based on the gaze direction and identified object of interest; and
updating, based on the determined gaze direction and the gaze saliency map, the occupancy probability of the one or more voxels.