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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2021
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Arpita Chand, Dearborn, MI (US);
Oliver Lei, Windsor, CA;
Somak Datta Gupta, Novi, MI (US);
Jayanthi Rao, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A system includes a multi-access edge computing camera that can determine characteristics of a group of waiting vehicle passengers based on machine-classification and count of individual elements of the group derived from imaging the group with the camera and supplement at least the count based on short-range wireless broadcast received from mobile devices possessed by members of the group. The camera conveys the characteristics to a dispatch process, and the dispatch process determines that a non-dispatched fleet vehicle has present capacity to accommodate the determined characteristics. The dispatch process determine that the characteristics meet a defined predicate for dispatch of the non-dispatched fleet vehicle and responsive to determining that the characteristics meet a defined predicate for dispatch of the non-dispatched fleet vehicle, dispatches the fleet vehicle.