ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,942, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Multi-channel dynamic weather estimation" was invented by Xiaoying He (Palo Alto, Calif.), Haoxuan Zheng (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jingyuan Linda Zhang (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments relate to multi-channel dynamic weather estimations. An example embodiment includes a method. The method includes capturing, using a camera, an image of a first field of view of a surrounding environment from a first perspective. The method also includes capturing, using a light detection and ranging (lidar) device, a point cloud of a secon...