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Nvidia patents method for cars to find parking spots using AI and sensors

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Patent drawing from the official filing.

Nvidia describes a system that helps self-driving cars find parking spaces by combining machine learning predictions with edge detection from camera or sensor data. The system uses the AI's guess to filter out irrelevant details, then refines the shape of the parking spot using optimization techniques to ensure accuracy.

Why it mattersThis could help autonomous vehicles park more reliably by creating a more precise map of available spaces, which is a common challenge for driverless cars.

In the filing’s own words

In various examples, parking area detection for autonomous and/or semi-autonomous systems and applications is described herein. Systems and methods described herein may use a hybrid method to more accurately determine geometries of the parking areas within environments. For instance, sensor data (e.g., image data, etc.) may be processed using one or more edge detection techniques to determine edge features (e.g., two-dimensional pixels, three-dimensional points, etc.) associated with an environment that includes a parking area. A predicted geometry associated with the parking area, as determined using one or more machine learning models, may then be used to filter the edge features in order to identify a portion of the edge features that represent the parking area. One or more optimization techniques may then be used to determine the final geometry associated with the parking area based at least on the filtered edge features.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method comprising: determining, using one or more machine learning models and based at least on sensor data obtained using one or more sensors of a machine, a first geometry associated with a parking area located within an environment; selecting, based at least on the first geometry associated with the parking area, a subset of features corresponding to one or more boundaries associated with the parking area; determining, based at least on the subset of the features, a second geometry associated with the parking area; and causing a machine to perform one or more operations based at least on the second geometry associated with the parking area.

Facts

Company
Nvidia (NVIDIA Corporation)
Official title
PARKING AREA DETECTION
Publication number
US20260326748A1
Application number
19720668
Filed
Jun 25, 2026
Published
Oct 22, 2026
Inventors
5
Claims
20

Classified under

B60W 30/06 Operations & transportG06T 7/13 Physics & computingG06V 10/443 Physics & computingG06V 10/751 Physics & computingG06V 10/82 Physics & computingG06V 20/586 Physics & computing
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