Patents by Inventor Nick Semansky

Nick Semansky has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11641461
    Abstract: Sensors coupled to a vehicle are calibrated using a dynamic scene with sensor targets around a motorized turntable that rotates the vehicle to different orientations. The sensors capture data at each orientation along the rotation. The vehicle's computer identifies representations of the sensor targets within the data captured by the sensors, and calibrates the sensor based on these representations. The motorized turntable may confirm that rotation has stopped to the vehicle to trigger sensor capture, and the vehicle may communicate completion of sensor capture at an orientation to the motorized turntable to trigger further rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC.
    Inventors: Ankit Rohatgi, Adam Cadien, Jun-Wei Hew, Nick Semansky, Zhi Yuan Sherwin Lau, Zhichang Yan, Haven Lau
  • Publication number: 20220053181
    Abstract: Sensors coupled to a vehicle are calibrated using a dynamic scene with sensor targets around a motorized turntable that rotates the vehicle to different orientations. The sensors capture data at each orientation along the rotation. The vehicle's computer identifies representations of the sensor targets within the data captured by the sensors, and calibrates the sensor based on these representations. The motorized turntable may confirm that rotation has stopped to the vehicle to trigger sensor capture, and the vehicle may communicate completion of sensor capture at an orientation to the motorized turntable to trigger further rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Ankit Rohatgi, Adam Cadien, Jun-Wei Hew, Nick Semansky, Zhi Yuan Sherwin Lau, Zhichang Yan, Haven Lau
  • Patent number: 11166009
    Abstract: Sensors coupled to a vehicle are calibrated using a dynamic scene with sensor targets around a motorized turntable that rotates the vehicle to different orientations. The sensors capture data at each orientation along the rotation. The vehicle's computer identifies representations of the sensor targets within the data captured by the sensors, and calibrates the sensor based on these representations. The motorized turntable may confirm that rotation has stopped to the vehicle to trigger sensor capture, and the vehicle may communicate completion of sensor capture at an orientation to the motorized turntable to trigger further rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Ankit Rohatgi, Adam Cadien, Jun-Wei Hew, Nick Semansky, Zhi Yuan Sherwin Lau, Zhichang Yan, Haven Lau
  • Publication number: 20200413035
    Abstract: Sensors coupled to a vehicle are calibrated using a dynamic scene with sensor targets around a motorized turntable that rotates the vehicle to different orientations. The sensors capture data at each orientation along the rotation. The vehicle's computer identifies representations of the sensor targets within the data captured by the sensors, and calibrates the sensor based on these representations. The motorized turntable may confirm that rotation has stopped to the vehicle to trigger sensor capture, and the vehicle may communicate completion of sensor capture at an orientation to the motorized turntable to trigger further rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Ankit Rohatgi, Adam Cadien, Jun-Wei Hew, Nick Semansky, Zhi Yuan Sherwin Lau, Zhichang Yan, Haven Lau
  • Patent number: 10785474
    Abstract: Sensors coupled to a vehicle are calibrated using a dynamic scene with sensor targets around a motorized turntable that rotates the vehicle to different orientations. The sensors capture data at each vehicle orientation along the rotation. The vehicle's computer identifies representations of the sensor targets within the data captured by the sensors, and calibrates the sensor based on these representations, for example by comparing these representations to previously stored information about the sensor targets and generating a correction based on differences, the correction applied to post-calibration sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Nick Semansky
  • Patent number: 10742969
    Abstract: Sensors coupled to a vehicle are calibrated using a dynamic scene with sensor targets around a motorized turntable that rotates the vehicle to different orientations. The sensors capture data at each orientation along the rotation. The vehicle's computer identifies representations of the sensor targets within the data captured by the sensors, and calibrates the sensor based on these representations. The motorized turntable may confirm that rotation has stopped to the vehicle to trigger sensor capture, and the vehicle may communicate completion of sensor capture at an orientation to the motorized turntable to trigger further rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Ankit Rohatgi, Jun-Wei Hew, Adam Cadien, Haven Lau, Nick Semansky, Zhichang Yan, Zhi Yuan Sherwin Lau
  • Patent number: 10735717
    Abstract: Sensors coupled to a vehicle are calibrated using a dynamic scene with sensor targets around a motorized turntable that rotates the vehicle to different orientations. The sensors capture data at each vehicle orientation along the rotation. The vehicle's computer identifies representations of the sensor targets within the data captured by the sensors, and calibrates the sensor based on these representations, for example by comparing these representations to previously stored information about the sensor targets and generating a correction based on differences, the correction applied to post-calibration sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Nick Semansky