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Apple self-driving anti-collision patent exposure

Release time:

2016-12-12 11:26

According to a report from Nanjing Hua Xun, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today announced Apple's latest patent application. This is a patent for a self-driving car collision avoidance system. Basically, we can also see Apple in the field of self-driving cars. Work hard.

According to Nanjing Huaxun, Apple's patent is called "avoiding any polygonal obstacle". This technology can also prove that Apple is exploring the application of machine learning and computer vision in self-driving cars.

According to the patent documents, Apple's new patent allows the self-driving car to update the road conditions around the car at a speed of 60 times per second, and detect multiple oncoming obstacles. More specifically, it can detect the edge distance of each obstacle to avoid.

This collision avoidance system is capable of recognizing objects in two-and three-dimensional space. AppleInsider said the technique could be used to avoid concave or convex objects, whether they are stationary or moving. For self-driving cars, it is very important to determine the edges of obstacles and avoid them.

Autonomous driving systems usually take a certain amount of time to detect the road conditions ahead through cameras or other sensors, which requires powerful data processors, complex detection and avoidance algorithms, and the new collision avoidance system can greatly simplify this calculation.

Once the first object is avoided, the system moves on to the next obstacle, taking into account the newly learned data from the previous object.

Recently, Apple filed an application with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, asking the government to relax regulations on driverless car testing for new companies in the industry, indicating that the company intends to conduct road tests in the future.