Patent ID: 11953599
Assignee: MOBILEYE VISION TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A navigational system for a host vehicle, the system comprising:
at least one processor comprising circuitry and a memory, wherein the memory includes instructions that when executed by the circuitry cause the at least one processor to:
receive a stream of images captured by a camera onboard the host vehicle, wherein the captured images are representative of an environment surrounding the host vehicle;
receive an output of a LIDAR onboard the host vehicle, wherein the output of the LIDAR is representative of a plurality of laser reflections from at least a portion of the environment surrounding the host vehicle;
determine at least one indicator of relative alignment between the output of the LIDAR and at least one image captured by the camera, wherein determining the at least one indicator of relative alignment comprises determining a transform between the at least one image captured by the camera and the output of the LIDAR and accounting for a difference between a scan rate of the LIDAR and a scan rate of the camera, and wherein the at least one indicator of relative alignment is based on aligning, in image space, the output of the LIDAR and the at least one image;
analyze the at least one image captured by the camera to identify one or more objects represented in the at least one image;
attribute, based on the at least one indicator of the relative alignment between the output of the LIDAR and the at least one image captured by the camera, LIDAR reflection information to the one or more objects identified by the analysis of the at least one image captured by the camera; and
use the attributed LIDAR reflection information and the one or more objects identified in the at least one image to determine at least one navigational characteristic associated with the host vehicle, the at least one navigational characteristic comprising a distance between the host vehicle and an area where at least one of the one or more objects contacts the road.