Patent ID: 11912310
Assignee: TUSIMPLE, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 8:
9. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing executable instructions for an autonomous driving vehicle that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform at least the following:
receive a series of road images from a side-view camera sensor of the autonomous driving vehicle, wherein each image in the series of road images is taken at a different time,
wherein a larger quantity of the series of road images is used to determine directions of travel and speeds of distant objects compared to the series of road images that are used to determine directions of travel and speeds of objects that are close to the autonomous driving vehicle;

generate, for each object from objects captured in the series of road images, a series of bounding boxes in the series of road images, wherein each bounding box in the series of bounding boxes corresponds to an image in the series of road images;
determine, for each object from the objects, a direction of travel or that the object is stationary;
determine a speed of each object for which the direction of travel has been determined;
determine, based on the directions of travel, speeds, or stationarity of the objects, whether the autonomous driving vehicle can safely move in a predetermined direction,
wherein a quantity of the series of road images that are analyzed before the determining whether the autonomous driving vehicle can safely move in the predetermined direction depends on a noise level in the directions of travel, speeds, or stationarity of the objects; and

send one or more control signals to the autonomous driving vehicle to cause the autonomous driving vehicle to move or to remain stationary based on the determining whether the autonomous driving vehicle can safely move in the predetermined direction.