Patent ID: 11915488
Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY US, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. A localization and mapping method for a vehicle in a low-light environment, the method comprising:
obtaining, by a controller including at least one processor circuit, a sequence of images of an environment surrounding a vehicle;
enhancing, by the controller, low-light images with a low-light image enhancement model to generate a sequence of enhanced images; and
generating, by the controller, a map of an environment surrounding the vehicle based on the sequence of enhanced images; and
performing, by the controller, at least one autonomous or semi-autonomous operation using the generated map,
wherein the generating the low-light image enhancement model further comprises applying a weight factor that biases application of correction factors to those formed from more current images.