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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2009
Jeffrey Clark Lovell, Midland, MI (US);
Lorenzo Caminiti, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
James Joseph Richardson, Temecula, CA (US);
Christopher Thomas Higgins, Placentia, CA (US);
Jeffrey Clark Lovell, Midland, MI (US);
Lorenzo Caminiti, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
James Joseph Richardson, Temecula, CA (US);
Christopher Thomas Higgins, Placentia, CA (US);
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Erlanger, KY (US);
Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for transferring data between an object detection system and a collision processing circuit is provided. The object detection system includes sensors configured to provide coverage of and detect movement within a predetermined area. The object detection system further includes a path predicting circuit and a plotting circuit operable to predict and plot the location of detected objects. The system further includes a map definition of the predetermined area, a grid system plotted onto the predetermined area, and environmental information relating to the predetermined area, and a series of overlays. Each overlay is plotted with the grid system and the predicted location of the detected objects. The object detection system transmits the map definition and series of overlays to the collision processing circuit so as to determine a probability of a collision.