https://patents.google.com/patent/US10956755B2/enEstimatingobject...

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10956755B2/en


Estimatingobject properties using visual image data

Abstract
A system is comprised of one or more processors coupled to memory. The one or more processors are configured to receive image data based on an image captured using a camera of a vehicle and to utilize the image data as a basis of an input to a trained machine learning model to at least in part identify a distance of an object from the vehicle. The trained machine learning model has been trained using a training image and a correlated output of an emitting distance sensor.



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interesting patent, looks like Tesla trains their networks with Radar/Lidar and associates depth sensory data with visual. Then they can remove the depth sensors and the network can run purely with visual sensors