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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2019
Applicant:
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Erlanger, KY (US);
Inventor:
Vladimeros Vladimerou, Whitmore Lake, MI (US);
Assignee:
TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC., Plano, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 10/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G08G 1/16 (2006.01); G08G 1/01 (2006.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01); B60W 40/04 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00798 (2013.01); B60W 40/04 (2013.01); G01C 21/3658 (2013.01); G05D 1/0278 (2013.01); G08G 1/0112 (2013.01); G08G 1/167 (2013.01); B60W 2552/35 (2020.02);
Abstract
Methods and systems to crowd source road related information. The crowd sourced road related information may include lane-specific data related to a lane-level police presence and/or a disabled roadside vehicle presence. The crowd sourced road related information may include lane-level vehicle spacing information. The communication of the lane-specific data to a crowd sourced road condition server may occur automatically in one mode and may occur only after confirmation from a user in another mode.