Donald R Burnette

US Patent:

8527199, Sep 3, 2013

Filed:

May 17, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/474591

Inventors:

Donald Jason Burnette - Palo Alto CA, US
Andrew Hughes Chatham - San Francisco CA, US
Matthew Paul McNaughton - Sunnyvale CA, US

Assignee:

Google Inc. - Mountain View CA

International Classification:

G01C 21/00

US Classification:

701450, 701 23, 701425

Abstract:

Disclosed herein are methods and apparatus for generating accurate maps for autonomous vehicles. A map is stored at a computing device associated with a vehicle. The vehicle can be operated in a partially-autonomous mode, where the computing device can generate driving directions for manual execution along a route based on the map. The computing device can be configured to receive and store information related to features and a quality of driving along the route. The map can be updated and quality control statistics can be determined based on the stored information. The updated map can be promoted based on the quality control statistics. In response to promoting the updated map, the computing device can store the promoted map and enable the vehicle to operate in the autonomous-operation mode using the promoted map.

US Patent:

20200401145, Dec 24, 2020

Filed:

Sep 10, 2020

Appl. No.:

16/948271

Inventors:

- San Francisco CA, US
Donald Jason Burnette - San Francisco CA, US
Lisa Christine Weitekamp - San Francisco CA, US
Bryan John Nagy - Allison Park PA, US
Eric Michael Perko - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

G05D 1/02
B60W 40/02
G08G 1/07

Abstract:

A method for receiving autonomous vehicle (AV) driving path data associated with a driving path in a roadway of a geographic location. The driving path data associated with a trajectory for an AV in a roadway and trajectory points in a trajectory of the driving path in the roadway for determining at least one feature of the roadway positioned a lateral distance from a first trajectory of the one or more trajectories of the driving path of an AV based on the map data. The method includes receiving map data associated with a map of a geographic location, determining a driving path for an AV in a roadway, generating driving path information based on a trajectory point in a trajectory of the driving path, and providing driving path data associated with the driving path to an AV for controlling the AV on the roadway.