IP Library Granted Patent US 12,208,744
Granted Patent B2
US 12,208,744 · App. 17/396,621 · Granted Jan 28, 2025

Data processing methods, devices, and apparatuses, and movable platforms

Inventors: Yongjie Huang (Shenzhen, CN); Hongshan Li (Shenzhen, CN); Zhongqin Zhou (Shenzhen, CN); Zheyang Li (Shenzhen, CN)
Assignee: SHENZHEN ZHUOYU TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
B60R1/31B60R1/24G01S7/20G01S13/89G01S13/931B60R2300/105B60R2300/301B60R2300/303B60R2300/804G01S2013/9323G01S2013/9324
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Patent No.
US 12,208,744
App. No.
17/396,621
Granted
Jan 28, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure provides a method, a device, and an apparatus for processing data, and a movable platform; the method is applied to the movable platform that includes a sensor, and includes: collecting at least two directions of an environment surrounding the movable platform through a sensor, performing three-dimensional reconstruction of the environmental data in the at least two directions to obtain three-dimensional environmental information of the environment surrounding the movable platform, and further displaying the three-dimensional environmental information on a display apparatus. The present disclosure may assist a driver in driving and improve the driving safety of the movable platform.

Claims (55)

1. A data processing method for a movable platform, comprising:

collecting, through at least one sensor of a movable platform, environmental data in at least two directions of an environment surrounding the movable platform;

performing, by the movable platform, three-dimensional reconstruction on the environmental data in the at least two directions to obtain three-dimensional environmental information of the environment surrounding the movable platform, wherein the three- dimensional environmental information comprising a panoramic image and a panoramic point cloud image; and

displaying both the panoramic image and the panoramic point cloud image on a same display apparatus of the movable platform;

wherein the at least one sensor comprises a vision sensor, a lidar, a millimeter-wave radar, and an ultrasonic sensor;

wherein the vision sensor, the lidar and the millimeter-wave radar are main sensors, and the ultrasonic sensor is an assistant sensor for collecting the environmental data corresponding to a scanning blind area of the main sensor;

wherein the panoramic image is collected by the vision sensor, and the panoramic point cloud image is collected by the lidar or the millimeter-wave radar;

wherein the displaying of the three-dimensional environmental information on the display apparatus comprises:

displaying the three-dimensional environmental information on the same display apparatus in a designated angle of view;

wherein the designated angle of view comprises an upper front angle of view.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the performing of the three-dimensional reconstruction on the environmental data in the at least two directions-includes comprises:

combining the environmental data in the at least two directions to reconstruct the environmental data in three-dimension.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the at least two directions comprise omni-directions.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one sensor comprises a plurality of vision sensors arranged in a plurality of directions on the movable platform for multi-directional coverage.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one sensor comprises:

a plurality of lidars arranged in a plurality of directions on the movable platform for multi-directional coverage; or

a rotating lidar.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the collecting of the environmental data in the at least two directions of the environment surrounding the movable platform comprises:

collecting the environmental data in the at least two directions of the environment surrounding the movable platform through the lidar or the millimeter-wave radar upon detecting that a fault occurs in the vision sensor or the environment surrounding the movable platform has a light intensity beyond a preset light intensity range.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the panoramic image and the panoramic point cloud image are superimposed one over another and displayed on the same display apparatus.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the movable platform is a vehicle comprising the same display apparatus.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the same display apparatus is located outside the movable platform.

10. An apparatus, comprising:

at least one sensor;

at least one storage medium storing a set of instructions for processing data for a movable platform; and

at least one processor in communication with the at least one storage medium, wherein during operation, the at least one processor executes the set of instructions to:

collect, through the at least one sensor, environmental data in at least two directions of an environment surrounding the movable platform;

perform three-dimensional reconstruction on the environmental data in the at least two directions to obtain three-dimensional environmental information of the environment surrounding the movable platform, wherein the three-dimensional environmental information comprising a panoramic image and a panoramic point cloud image; and

display both the panoramic image and the panoramic point cloud image on a same display apparatus mounted on the movable platform;

wherein the at least one sensor comprises a vision sensor, a lidar, a millimeter-wave radar, and an ultrasonic sensor;

wherein the vision sensor, the lidar, and the millimeter-wave radar are main sensors, and the ultrasonic sensor is an assistant sensor for collecting the environmental data corresponding to a scanning blind area of the main sensor;

wherein the panoramic image is collected by the vision sensor, and the panoramic point cloud image is collected by the lidar or the millimeter-wave radar;

wherein the displaying of the three-dimensional environmental information on the display apparatus comprises:

displaying the three-dimensional environmental information on the same display apparatus in a designated angle of view;

wherein the designated angle of view comprises an upper front angle of view.

11. The apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the at least one processor further executes the set of instructions to combine the environmental data in the at least two directions to reconstruct the environmental data in three-dimension.

12. The apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the at least two directions comprise omni-directions.

13. The apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the at least one processor further executes the set of instructions to superimpose and display on the same display apparatus the panoramic image and the panoramic point cloud image one over another.

14. A movable platform, comprising:

at least one sensor;

at least one storage medium storing a set of instructions for processing data for the movable platform; and

at least one processor in communication with the at least one storage medium, wherein during operation, the at least one processor executes the set of instructions to:

collect, through the at least one sensor, environmental data in at least two directions of an environment surrounding the movable platform;

perform three-dimensional reconstruction on the environmental data in the at least two directions to obtain three-dimensional environmental information of the environment surrounding the movable platform, wherein the three-dimensional environmental information comprising a panoramic image and a panoramic point cloud image; and

display both the panoramic image and the panoramic point cloud image on a same display apparatus mounted on the movable platform;

wherein the at least one sensor comprises a vision sensor, a lidar, a millimeter-wave radar, and an ultrasonic sensor;

wherein the vision sensor, the lidar, and the millimeter-wave radar are main sensors, and the ultrasonic sensor is an assistant sensor for collecting the environmental data corresponding to a scanning blind area of the main sensor;

wherein the panoramic image is collected by the vision sensor, and the panoramic point cloud image is collected by the lidar or the millimeter-wave radar;

wherein the displaying of the three-dimensional environmental information on the display apparatus comprises:

displaying the three-dimensional environmental information on the same display apparatus in a designated angle of view;

wherein the designated angle of view comprises an upper front angle of view.

15. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the preset light intensity range comprises a maximum light intensity threshold and a minimum light intensity threshold, and the maximum light intensity threshold and the minimum light intensity threshold are both determined based on experimental measurement data.

16. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the upper front angle of view is based on the front region of the movable platform, comprises the front, upper, left, and right of the front region of the movable platform, and comprises a scene at a certain distance in the front of the movable platform, scenes on the left and right, and a relatively wide scene in the rear.

17. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the vision sensors collect a first environmental image in the front of the movable platform, an second environmental image in the rear thereof, a third environmental image on the left thereof, and a fourth environmental image on the right thereof;

wherein the movable platform combine the first environmental image, the second environmental image, the third environmental image and the fourth environmental image together to form a three-dimensional environmental image of the environment surrounding the movable platform.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 17, 2024
From: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
To: SHENZHEN ZHUOYU TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 067452/0494 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 27, 2021
From: HUANG, YONGJIE; LI, HONGSHAN; ZHOU, ZHONGQIN; LI, ZHEYANG
To: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 057316/0945 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2019083803 · Apr 23, 2019
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