ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,882, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Camera-radar sensor fusion using local attention mechanism" was invented by Jyh-Jing Hwang (Mountain View, Calif.), Henrik Kretzschmar (Mountain View, Calif.) and Dragomir Anguelov (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computer systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing sensor data. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining image data representing a camera sensor measurement of a scene; obtaining radar data representing a radar sensor measurement of the scene; generating a feature re...