Patent 10108867 was granted and assigned to Uber on October, 2018 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Object detection systems and methods can include identifying an object of interest within an image obtained from a camera, obtaining a first supplemental portion of data associated with the object of interest determining an estimated location of the object of interest within three-dimensional space based at least in part on the first supplemental portion of data and a known relative location of the camera, determining a portion of the LIDAR point data corresponding to the object of interest based at least in part on the estimated location of the object of interest within three-dimensional space, and providing one or more of at least a portion of the image corresponding to the object of interest and the portion of LIDAR point data corresponding to the object of interest as an output.