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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:
Nov. 29, 2022

Filed:

Mar. 26, 2020
Applicant:

GM Cruise Holdings Llc, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Nestor Grace, San Francisco, CA (US);

Diego Plascencia-Vega, San Francisco, CA (US);

Dogan Gidon, Berkeley, CA (US);

Mohamed Mostafa Elshenawy, Burlingame, CA (US);

Assignee:

GM Cruise Holdings LLC, San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/16 (2006.01); G08G 1/01 (2006.01); H04W 4/46 (2018.01); H04L 67/12 (2022.01); H04W 4/44 (2018.01); H04W 4/38 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/163 (2013.01); G08G 1/0112 (2013.01); H04W 4/46 (2018.02);
Abstract

Collaborative perception is based on recognition that a fleet of AVs and stationary infrastructure objects equipped with sensors may be configured to communicate with one another in sharing their sensor data, thus benefiting from collaborative perception, rather than being limited to their individual perception. Three specific scenarios of collaborative perception are disclosed. The first scenario relates to two AVs in the vicinity of one another exchanging complexity scores indicative of their respective environments. The second scenario relates to an AV detecting that it has a blind spot and seeking other AVs or infrastructure objects to provide information indicative of the environment in the blind spot. The third scenario relates to providing infrastructure objects equipped with sensors in appropriate locations so that, when an AV is in the vicinity of such objects, the AV may receive information from their sensors.


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