US Patent Issued to Waymo on July 7 for "Detection and classification of traffic signs using camera-radar fusion" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,866, issued on July 7, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Detection and classification of traffic signs using camera-radar fusion" was invented by Daniel Ho (Santa Clara, Calif.), Alper Ayvaci (San Jose, Calif.), Vasiliy Igorevich Karasev (San Francisco) and Jiakai Zhang (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed systems and techniques facilitate efficient detection and classification of traffic signs in driving environments. The disclosed techniques include, obtaining, using a sensing system of a vehicle a first set of perspective camera images of an environment and a second set of radar images of ...