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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2021
GM Cruise Holdings Llc, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shaogang Wang, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
GM Cruise Holdings LLC, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to combining the strengths of different methods of analyzing collected sensor data to reduce the risk of an autonomous vehicle (AV) impacting an object. This may include combining data from sets of data that track movement of objects over time with instantaneously received sensor data based on a series of steps that include accessing data that tracks the motion of objects in the field of view of a sensing apparatus, receiving current sensor data that includes a component of current or instantaneous object motion, and generating a forecast of future motion of that object. This forecast may be based on an analysis that compares the data that tracks the motion of objects with the current sensor data as part of a process that generates a risk probability. When the risk probability meets or exceeds a threshold level, a corrective action may be initiated.