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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:
Apr. 23, 2019

Filed:

Jan. 06, 2017
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Somdeb Majumdar, Mission Viejo, CA (US);

Mainak Biswas, San Diego, CA (US);

William Henry Von Novak, San Diego, CA (US);

Muhammed Sezan, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/00 (2006.01); B60W 40/09 (2012.01); B60W 50/14 (2012.01); G05B 13/02 (2006.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/0061 (2013.01); B60W 40/09 (2013.01); B60W 50/14 (2013.01); G05B 13/021 (2013.01); G05D 1/0088 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0095 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0213 (2013.01);
Abstract

In an embodiment, a vehicle controller determines a predicted driving performance level of a vehicle driving control entity (VDCE) while the vehicle is controlled by a different VDCE. Driving control is transitioned to the VDCE, after which an actual driving performance level of the VDCE is monitored. The vehicle controller determines whether to transition driving control away from the VDCE based on the actual driving performance level. In another embodiment, after transition driving control to a VDCE, a period of heightened scrutiny used to evaluate the actual driving performance level of the VDCE specifically after the transition.


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