Techniques are described for autonomous driving operation that includes receiving, by a computer located in a vehicle, an image from a camera located on the vehicle while the vehicle is operating on a road, wherein the image includes a plurality of lanes of the road; for each of the plurality of lanes: obtaining, from a map database stored in the computer, a set of values that describe locations of boundaries of a lane; dividing the lane into a plurality of polygons; rendering the plurality of polygons onto the image; and determining identifiers of lane segments of the lane; determining one or more characteristics of a lane segment on which the vehicle is operating based on an identifier of the lane segment; and causing the vehicle to perform a driving related operation in response to the one or more characteristics of the lane segment on which the vehicle is operating.
AUTONOMOUS DRIVING USING SEMANTIC INFORMATION OF A ROAD
2024-06-20
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | G06V / B60W CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE OR DIFFERENT FUNCTION , Gemeinsame Steuerung oder Regelung von Fahrzeug-Unteraggregaten verschiedenen Typs oder verschiedener Funktion / G06T Bilddatenverarbeitung oder Bilddatenerzeugung allgemein , IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL / G08G Anlagen zur Steuerung, Regelung oder Überwachung des Verkehrs , TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS |
European Patent Office | 2021
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