{
  "patent_number": "US 20220161815",
  "country": "US",
  "title": "How Autonomous Cars Process Sensor Data for Driving",
  "original_title": "Autonomous vehicle system",
  "summary": "Intel's 2020 patent describes a system for autonomous vehicles that cleans and standardizes data from various sensors before using it to perceive the environment and make driving decisions.",
  "what_it_does": "This patent details an apparatus, likely a computer system within an autonomous vehicle, designed to handle the raw information gathered by the car's sensors, like cameras and lidar. The system first receives this 'sensor data' through an interface. Then, its 'processing circuitry' (the car's computer brain) applies an 'abstraction process' to this data. This process involves cleaning up the data by normalizing its values, correcting distortions through warping, or removing noise via filtering. The goal is to create 'abstracted scene data' that is reliable and consistent. This cleaned-up data is then used in the 'perception phase' of the car's control system, helping it understand what's around it, like other cars, pedestrians, and road signs, to make safe driving decisions.",
  "what_it_does_not_cover": [
    "Does not cover the specific hardware components of the sensors themselves.",
    "Does not cover the final decision-making or actuation (steering, braking) of the autonomous vehicle, only the data processing leading up to it.",
    "Does not cover systems that do not abstract sensor data before the perception phase.",
    "Does not cover methods of abstracting sensor data that do not involve normalization, warping, or filtering.",
    "Does not cover sensor data from non-autonomous vehicles."
  ],
  "filed": "2020-03-27",
  "granted": null,
  "expires": "2040-03-27",
  "status": "active",
  "holder": "Intel",
  "holder_url": "https://patentbrief.org/company/intel",
  "inventors": [
    {
      "name": "Jithin Sankar Sankaran Kutty",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/jithin-sankar-sankaran-kutty"
    },
    {
      "name": "Soila P. Kavulya",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/soila-p-kavulya"
    },
    {
      "name": "Hassnaa Moustafa",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/hassnaa-moustafa"
    },
    {
      "name": "Pragya Agrawal",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/pragya-agrawal"
    },
    {
      "name": "Patricia Ann Robb",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/patricia-ann-robb"
    },
    {
      "name": "Petrus J. Van Beek",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/petrus-j-van-beek"
    },
    {
      "name": "Li Chen",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/li-chen"
    },
    {
      "name": "David J. Zage",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/david-j-zage"
    },
    {
      "name": "Darshan Iyer",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/darshan-iyer"
    },
    {
      "name": "Suhel Jaber",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/suhel-jaber"
    },
    {
      "name": "Mehrnaz Khodam Hazrati",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/mehrnaz-khodam-hazrati"
    },
    {
      "name": "Jeffrey M. Ota",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/jeffrey-m-ota"
    },
    {
      "name": "Mohamed Eltabakh",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/mohamed-eltabakh"
    },
    {
      "name": "Rita H. Wouhaybi",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/rita-h-wouhaybi"
    },
    {
      "name": "Iman Saleh Moustafa",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/iman-saleh-moustafa"
    },
    {
      "name": "Darshana D. Salvi",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/darshana-d-salvi"
    },
    {
      "name": "Monica Lucia Martinez-Canales",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/monica-lucia-martinez-canales"
    },
    {
      "name": "Naveen Aerrabotu",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/naveen-aerrabotu"
    },
    {
      "name": "Cynthia E. Kaschub",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/cynthia-e-kaschub"
    },
    {
      "name": "Fatema S. Adenwala",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/fatema-s-adenwala"
    }
  ],
  "times_cited": 72,
  "tags": [
    "automotive",
    "consumer_electronics",
    "software",
    "ai_ml"
  ],
  "abstract": "According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes an interface to receive sensor data from a plurality of sensors of an autonomous vehicle. The apparatus also includes processing circuitry to apply a sensor abstraction process to the sensor data to produce abstracted scene data, and to use the abstracted scene data in a perception phase of a control process for the autonomous vehicle. The sensor abstraction process may include one or more of: applying a Sensor data response normalization process to the sensor data, applying a warp process to the sensor data, and applying a filtering process to the sensor data.",
  "url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/20220161815/autonomous-vehicle-system",
  "markdown_url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/20220161815/autonomous-vehicle-system/md",
  "google_patents_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US20220161815",
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