Patent ID: 11967109
Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A system for localizing a vehicle, the system comprising:
an image sensor to obtain an image of an environment near the vehicle; and
a processor that is programmable to execute instructions stored in non-transitory computer readable storage media, the instructions comprising:
segmenting a ground plane from the image captured by the image sensor based on a stereo pair of images captured by the image sensor, wherein the stereo pair of images comprise a set of points in three-dimensional space;
generating a top-down view of the ground plane based on the image;
comparing the top-down view of the ground plane with a map; and
determining a location of the vehicle on the map based on the comparison of the top-down view of the ground plane and the map.