US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Dec. 16 for "Systems and methods for odometry enhanced real-time cooperative relative pose estimation for cooperative LIDAR perception" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,481, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for odometry enhanced real-time cooperative relative pose estimation for cooperative LIDAR perception" was invented by Xuewei Qi (Mountain View, Calif.) and Qi Chen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to cooperative perception. In one embodiment, a method includes computing, at a first timestep, a base relative pose between an ego vehicle and a remote vehicle based upon respective poin...