Patent ID: 11940537
Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A virtual LiDAR sensor system for a motor vehicle, the system comprising:
a first camera or a first camera system that captures depth of field information of an image;
a second camera that captures RGB information of the image; and
a third camera that generates semantic segmentation information of the image;
a geometry point cloud that receives depth of field information from the first camera; and
a physics module that receives information from the geometry point cloud module, the second camera and the third camera, the physics module including a laser beam propagation sub-module, a backscattering attenuation sub-module, a digital reflector sub-module and a color-reflectivity table sub-module,
wherein the physics module generates a depth and intensity point cloud of the image from the depth of field information, the RGB information and the semantic segmentation information.