Patent №
US 11,615,702
Granted
2023-03-28
Filed 2020
Owner
FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Lab
—
AI components
3
vision · kr · planning
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
17017769
A system comprising a computer including instructions to collect object data about each of a plurality of objects within a zone from sensors on a roadside infrastructure unit. The zone includes a road intersection. The object data includes an object type, an object location, an object speed and an object direction of travel for each object. The computer further includes instructions to determine, based on the object data, an availability level for execution of one or more paths through the road intersection by a vehicle wherein the availability level for each of the one or more paths is based on a likelihood of interference between any of the objects and the vehicle as the vehicle traverses the respective path. The computer further includes instructions to transmit an availability message to the vehicle including the availability level for each of the one or more paths.
AI classification
Ownership
FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
assignment · 537410441
Assignors
ZHANG, LINJUN, KOUROUS, HELEN E.
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.