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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2018

Filed:

Apr. 26, 2017
Applicant:

The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);

Inventors:

Fei Sun, Belmont, MA (US);

Troy Jones, Somerville, MA (US);

Scott Lennox, Arlington, MA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G01C 21/10 (2006.01); G01C 21/20 (2006.01); G07C 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G01C 21/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G01S 19/13 (2010.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/0088 (2013.01); G01C 21/005 (2013.01); G01C 21/10 (2013.01); G01C 21/20 (2013.01); G06F 17/30477 (2013.01); G07C 5/008 (2013.01); G01S 19/13 (2013.01); H04W 4/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

In an embodiment, a method includes receiving, at an autonomous vehicle, reported data regarding an object in proximity to the autonomous vehicle. The data is collected by a collecting device external to the autonomous vehicle, and is relayed to the autonomous vehicle via a server. The reported data includes a current location, type, or predicted location of the object. The method further includes determining whether the reported data of the object matches an object in an object list determined by on-board sensors of the autonomous vehicle. If the determination finds a found object in the object list, the method correlates the reported data of the object to the found object in the object list. Otherwise, the method adds the reported data of the object to an object list of objects detected by sensor from on-board sensors of the autonomous vehicle. In embodiments, the collecting device is a mobile device.


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