Patent ID: 11961308
Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
identifying, based at least on image data corresponding to a plurality of images captured using a camera, candidate blocked regions in the plurality of images, wherein at least one candidate blocked regions being caused by one or more blockages in a field-of-view of the camera;
determining whether to maintain or create a region tracker in a blockage region map for tracking the at least one candidate blocked region based at least on relationships between the at least one candidate blocked region and others of the candidate blocked regions;
determining camera blockage information based at least on the region tracker; and
in response to a determination that the camera blockage information indicates that camera blockage is above a predetermined blockage threshold, performing one or more operations based at least on the camera blockage information.