Patents by Inventor Zhangjie Cao

Zhangjie Cao 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: 11922569
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating realistic full-scene point clouds. One of the methods includes obtaining an initial scene point cloud characterizing an initial scene in an environment; obtaining, for each of one or more objects, an object point cloud that characterizes the object; and processing a first input comprising the initial scene point cloud and the one or more object point clouds using a first neural network that is configured to process the first input to generate a final scene point cloud that characterizes a transformed scene that has the one or more objects added to the initial scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Yin Zhou, Dragomir Anguelov, Zhangjie Cao
  • Publication number: 20220230387
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating realistic full-scene point clouds. One of the methods includes obtaining an initial scene point cloud characterizing an initial scene in an environment; obtaining, for each of one or more objects, an object point cloud that characterizes the object; and processing a first input comprising the initial scene point cloud and the one or more object point clouds using a first neural network that is configured to process the first input to generate a final scene point cloud that characterizes a transformed scene that has the one or more objects added to the initial scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Yin Zhou, Dragomir Anguelov, Zhangjie Cao
  • Patent number: 11295517
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating realistic full-scene point clouds. One of the methods includes obtaining an initial scene point cloud characterizing an initial scene in an environment; obtaining, for each of one or more objects, an object point cloud that characterizes the object; and processing a first input comprising the initial scene point cloud and the one or more object point clouds using a first neural network that is configured to process the first input to generate a final scene point cloud that characterizes a transformed scene that has the one or more objects added to the initial scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Yin Zhou, Dragomir Anguelov, Zhangjie Cao
  • Publication number: 20210398014
    Abstract: A method for controlling an ego agent includes periodically receiving policy information comprising a spatial environment observation and a current state of the ego agent. The method also includes selecting, for each received policy information, a low-level policy from a number of low-level policies. The low-level policy may be selected based on a high-level policy. The method further includes controlling an action of the ego agent based on the selected low-level policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicants: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhangjie CAO, Erdem BIYIK, Woodrow Zhouyuan WANG, Allan RAVENTOS, Adrien GAIDON, Guy ROSMAN, Dorsa SADIGH
  • Patent number: 11205082
    Abstract: A system and method for predicting pedestrian intent is provided. A prediction circuit comprising a plurality of gated recurrent units (GRUB) receives a sequence of images captured by a camera. The prediction circuit parses each frame of the sequence of images to identify one or more pedestrians and one or more objects. Using the parsed data, the prediction circuit generates a pedestrian-centric spatiotemporal graph, the parsed data comprising one or more identified pedestrians and one or more identified object. The prediction circuit uses the pedestrian-centric graph to determine a probability of one or more pedestrians crossing a street for each frame of the sequence of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignees: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Ehsan Adeli-Mosabbeb, Kuan Lee, Adrien Gaidon, Bingbin Liu, Zhangjie Cao, Juan Carlos Niebles
  • Publication number: 20210150807
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating realistic full-scene point clouds. One of the methods includes obtaining an initial scene point cloud characterizing an initial scene in an environment; obtaining, for each of one or more objects, an object point cloud that characterizes the object; and processing a first input comprising the initial scene point cloud and the one or more object point clouds using a first neural network that is configured to process the first input to generate a final scene point cloud that characterizes a transformed scene that has the one or more objects added to the initial scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Yin Zhou, Dragomir Anguelov, Zhangjie Cao
  • Publication number: 20210103742
    Abstract: A system and method for predicting pedestrian intent is provided. A prediction circuit comprising a plurality of gated recurrent units (GRUB) receives a sequence of images captured by a camera. The prediction circuit parses each frame of the sequence of images to identify one or more pedestrians and one or more objects. Using the parsed data, the prediction circuit generates a pedestrian-centric spatiotemporal graph, the parsed data comprising one or more identified pedestrians and one or more identified object. The prediction circuit uses the pedestrian-centric graph to determine a probability of one or more pedestrians crossing a street for each frame of the sequence of images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Ehsan Adeli-Mosabbeb, Kuan Lee, Adrien Gaidon, Bingbin Liu, Zhangjie Cao, Juan Carlos Niebles