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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:
Sep. 08, 2026

Filed:

Oct. 11, 2023
Applicant:

Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);

Inventors:

Jayanthi Rao, West Bloomfield, MI (US);

Arpita Chand, Corvallis, OR (US);

Niraj Altekar, Mumbai, IN;

Mike Ryan, New Hudson, MI (US);

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/22 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G06V 10/80 (2022.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01); H04B 10/11 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/22 (2013.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.02); G06V 10/80 (2022.01); G06V 20/584 (2022.01); H04B 10/11 (2013.01); B60W 2420/403 (2013.01); B60W 2420/54 (2013.01); B60W 2556/35 (2020.02); B60W 2556/45 (2020.02);
Abstract

Data fusion of radio frequency (RF) and visual data is provided. Via a transceiver of a vehicle, a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) message is received from a remote road entity, the V2X message including one or more V2X data elements descriptive of the remote road entity. Using a camera of the vehicle, modulated light data is captured within a sensing area surrounding an ego road entity, the modulated light data being sent from the remote road entity. A modulated light transmission in the modulated light data is decoded to identify one or more light data elements in the modulated light data descriptive of the road entity. An association of the one or more V2X data elements is performed with the one or more light data elements to identify associated V2X camera objects where the V2X message and the modulated light data are fused into a combined representation of the remote road entity.


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