Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Determining real-time timestamps for robotic sensor data
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Application No.: US15490711Application Date: 2017-04-18
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Publication No.: US10296602B1Publication Date: 2019-05-21
- Inventor: Emily Cooper , Matthieu Guilbert , Thomas Buschmann , David Deephanphongs , Yuanzheng Gong
- Applicant: X Development LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: X DEVELOPMENT LLC
- Current Assignee: X DEVELOPMENT LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Middleton Reutlinger
- Main IPC: G06F17/40
- IPC: G06F17/40 ; G06F17/30 ; H04N5/76 ; H04N5/04 ; B25J9/16

Abstract:
Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media for assigning a real-time clock domain timestamp to sensor frames from a sensor component that operates in a non-real-time time-domain. In some implementations, a real-time component receives capture instances that each indicate capturing of a corresponding sensor data frame by the sensor component. In response to a capture output instance, the real-time component or an additional real-time component assigns a real-time timestamp to the capture output instance, where the real-time timestamp is based on the real-time clock domain. Separately, a non-real-time component receives the corresponding sensor data frames captured by the sensor component, along with corresponding metadata. For each sensor data frame, it is determined whether there is a real-time timestamp that corresponds to the data frame and, if so, the real-time timestamp is assigned to the sensor data frame.
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