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Nvidia patents car cameras that switch views based on driving speed

Nvidia describes a system for self-driving vehicles that changes how it displays the surroundings. It can switch between a simple 3D bowl shape and a detailed 3D map of surfaces depending on the car's speed or nearby objects.

Why it mattersThis helps drivers or automated systems see the road more clearly by adjusting the visual detail to the current driving situation.

In the filing’s own words

In various examples, an environment visualization pipeline may determine whether to generate or otherwise enable a visualization using an environmental modeling pipeline that models an environment as a 3D bowl or using an environmental modeling pipeline that models the environment using some other 3D representation, such as a detected 3D surface topology. The determination may made based on various factors, such as ego-machine state, (e.g., one or more detected features indicative of a designated operational scenario, proximity to a detected object, speed of ego-machine, etc.), estimated image quality of a corresponding environment visualization, and/or other factors. Accordingly, an environment around an ego-machine, such as a vehicle, robot, and/or other type of object, may be visualized in systems such as parking visualization systems, Surround View Systems, and/or others.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. One or more processors comprising processing circuitry to: generate two or more image frames based at least on sensor data, the sensor data corresponding to a first time slice and generated using one or more sensors of an ego-machine in an environment; switch, based at least on a state of the ego-machine, from generating a first visualization of the environment using a three-dimensional (3D) bowl model of the environment to generating a second visualization of the environment that uses a 3D surface topology model of the environment; and present the second visualization of the environment based at least on the two or more image frames.

Facts

Company
Nvidia (NVIDIA CORPORATION)
Official title
ENVIRONMENT VISUALIZATION
Publication number
US20260285348A1
Application number
19537767
Filed
Feb 12, 2026
Published
Sep 24, 2026
Inventors
6
Claims
20

Classified under

B60W 50/14 Operations & transportG06T 7/50 Physics & computingG06T 17/20 Physics & computingG06V 10/26 Physics & computingG06V 10/993 Physics & computingG06V 20/56 Physics & computing
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