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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2020
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Europe B.v., Weybridge, GB;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A monitoring system detects and mitigates traffic risks among a group of vehicles. The group of vehicles includes a ground-based vehicle (GBV), e.g. an automotive vehicle, and an air-based vehicle (ABV), e.g. a drone, which is operated to track a ground-based object (GBO), e.g. an unprotected road user or an animal. The monitoring system performs a method comprising: obtaining () predicted navigation data for the ground-based vehicle and the air-based vehicle, processing () the predicted navigation data to obtain one or more future locations of the ground based-object and to detect an upcoming spatial proximity between the ground-based object and the ground-based vehicle, and causing (), upon detection of the upcoming spatial proximity, an alert signal to be provided to at least one of the ground-based object and the ground-based vehicle.