ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,542, issued on June 23, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).
"Online Lidar intensity normalization" was invented by Xiaoyan Hu (Redmond, Wash.) and Baoan Liu (Pittsburgh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a vehicle computer system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a set of instructions, and a method for online light detection and ranging (Lidar) intensity normalization. Consistent with some embodiments, the method may include accumulating point data output by a channel of a Lidar unit during operation of an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle. The accumulated...