# US 10,246,065 B2 · Vehicle hazard detection and warning system > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,246,065 B2 - Document ID: US10246065B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/236,973 - Filed: 2016-08-15 - Published: 2017-06-29 - Granted: 2019-04-02 - Earliest claimed: 2015-12-29 - Assignees: Thunder Power New Energy Vehicle Development Company Limited - Applicants: Thunder Power New Energy Vehicle Development Company Limited - Inventors: Yu-Ting Dai - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10246065B2 ## CPC - B60T 8/17558: {specially adapted for collision avoidance or collision mitigation (road vehicle drive control systems for collision avoidance otherwise than by controlling a particular sub-unit B60W30/09)} - B60T 7/16: operated by remote control, i.e. initiating means not mounted on vehicle - B60T 8/171: Detecting parameters used in the regulation; Measuring values used in the regulation - B60T 8/17551: {determining control parameters related to vehicle stability used in the regulation, e.g. by calculations involving measured or detected parameters} - B60W 30/0956: {the prediction being responsive to traffic or environmental parameters} - B60W 50/14: Means for informing the driver, warning the driver or prompting a driver intervention - G08G 1/096716: {where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control} - G08G 1/096741: {where the source of the transmitted information selects which information to transmit to each vehicle} - G08G 1/096775: {where the origin of the information is a central station} - H04B 1/3822: specially adapted for use in vehicles (H04B1/3827 takes precedence) - H04M 1/724098: {Interfacing with an on-board device of a vehicle (for hands-free speaking in vehicles H04M1/6075)} - H04W 4/027: {using movement velocity, acceleration information} - H04W 4/029: Location-based management or tracking services - H04W 4/40: for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P] - H04W 4/44: for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H] - H04W 4/70: Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC] - B60T 2210/36: Global Positioning System [GPS] - B60W 2420/403: Image sensing, e.g. optical camera - B60W 2520/105: Longitudinal acceleration - B60W 2554/80: Spatial relation or speed relative to objects - B60W 2556/45: External transmission of data to or from the vehicle - B60W 2556/50: of positioning data, e.g. GPS [Global Positioning System] data - G08G 1/0112: {from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]} - B60T: VEHICLE BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEMS OR PARTS THEREOF; BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEMS OR PARTS THEREOF, IN GENERAL (electrodynamic brake systems for vehicle, in general B60L; brakes per se, i.e. devices where braking effect occurs, including ultimate brake actuators, F16D); ARRANGEMENT OF BRAKING ELEMENTS ON VEHICLES IN GENERAL; PORTABLE DEVICES FOR PREVENTING UNWANTED MOVEMENT OF VEHICLES; VEHICLE MODIFICATIONS TO FACILITATE COOLING OF BRAKES - B60W: CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE OR DIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TO THE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT - G08G: TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS (guiding railway traffic, ensuring the safety of railway traffic B61L; arrangement of road signs or traffic signals E01F9/00; radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for traffic control G01S13/91, G01S15/88, G01S17/88; {radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for anti-collision purposes G01S13/93, G01S15/93, G01S17/93}) - H04B: TRANSMISSION - H04M: TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION (circuits for controlling other apparatus via a telephone cable and not involving telephone switching apparatus G08) - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) ## Abstract Described herein is a vehicle system configured to identify and mitigate a risk associated with one or more hazards that may impact a vehicle. The vehicle system may include a service provider computer configured to maintain information related to one or more hazards. In some embodiments, a hazard may be identified based at least in part on its being located within the vicinity of a vehicle. In some embodiments, the service provider computer may generate a mitigation strategy to reduce or eliminate the risk posed by the identified hazard. The mitigation strategy may include one or more actions to be taken by a processor device within the vehicle. Upon being provided with a mitigation strategy, the processor device may execute one or more of the actions in the mitigation strategy without human interaction. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A vehicle apparatus, comprising: one or more input sensors; an antenna device; and a processor device configured to: receive input from the one or more input sensors, the input including a location of a vehicle; provide the received input to a service provider computer via the antenna device, wherein the service provider is caused to: determine, based on the location of the vehicle, at least one hazard in a vicinity of the vehicle apparatus, the at least one hazard identified by a second vehicle traveling ahead of the vehicle using one or more sensors of the second vehicle; identify one or more risks associated with the at least one hazard; identify one or more driver-specific factors associated with the driver of the vehicle; and determine, based on the one or more driver-specific factors associated with a driving tendency of the driver of the vehicle in combination with the one or more risks, a strategy for mitigating the at least one hazard, the strategy including at least a first set of instructions and a second set of instructions; and receive, from the service provider computer and in response to providing the received input, the first set of instructions to provide a notification of at least one hazard in the vicinity of the vehicle apparatus to an operator of the vehicle apparatus, and the second set of instructions to activate one or more driving components of the vehicle to mitigate a risk posed by the at least one hazard based on one or more driver-specific factors; and execute each of the first set of instructions and the second set of instructions. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The vehicle apparatus of claim 1, further comprising an output device, wherein the processor device is further configured to provide the notification to the operator of the vehicle apparatus via the output device. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The vehicle apparatus of claim 1, wherein the antenna device is configured to enable communication via a cellular network. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The vehicle apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more input sensors includes a global positioning system device. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The vehicle apparatus of claim 4, wherein the input related to the location of the vehicle is a set of geographic coordinates. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The vehicle apparatus of claim 1, wherein each of the first set of instructions and the second set of instructions are executed at predetermined distances from the at least one hazard in the vicinity of the vehicle apparatus. ### Claim 7 A method comprising: receiving, from one or more input sensors, input information related to a vehicle, the input information including at least a location information; determining, based at least in part on the received input information, a hazard that the vehicle is projected to encounter, the hazard identified by a second vehicle traveling ahead of the vehicle using one or more sensors of the second vehicle; identifying one or more risks associated with the at least one hazard; identifying one or more driver-specific factors associated with a driving tendency of the driver of the vehicle; determining, based at least in part on the one or more driver-specific factors associated with the driver of the vehicle in combination with the one or more risks, a plurality of actions to be taken by the vehicle to mitigate a risk associated with the hazard, the plurality of actions including: a first action to provide a notification to a driver of the vehicle; and a second action to increase a brake sensitivity of the vehicle in accordance with the one or more driver-specific factors; and providing, instructions to execute the plurality of actions to the vehicle, such that the instructions cause the vehicle to execute the first action at a first predetermined distance from the hazard and to execute the second actions at a second predetermined distance from the hazard. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The method of claim 7, wherein the indication of the a plurality of actions includes a set of computer executable instructions. ### Claim 9 (depends on 7) The method of claim 7, wherein the plurality of actins also includes a third action to activate a braking system of the vehicle at a third predetermined distance from the hazard. ### Claim 10 (depends on 7) The method of claim 7, wherein each of the first predetermined distance and the second predetermined distance are different distances. ### Claim 11 (depends on 7) The method of claim 7, wherein each predetermined distance from the hazard is included in the instructions to execute the respective action. ### Claim 12 (depends on 7) The method of claim 7, wherein the risk associated with the hazard is a risk that a vehicle function will be affected by the hazard. ### Claim 13 (depends on 7) The method of claim 7, wherein the a plurality of actions is determined based at least in part on an attribute of a driver of the vehicle. ### Claim 14 A vehicle system, comprising: a processor device; and a memory including instructions that, when executed with the processor device, cause the system to, at least: receive an indication of a location associated with a vehicle; identify, based at least in part on the received indication, at least one hazard within a vicinity of the vehicle, the at least one hazard identified by a second vehicle traveling ahead of the vehicle using one or more sensors of the second vehicle; identify one or more risks associated with the at least one hazard; identify one or more driver-specific factors associated with a driving tendency of the driver of the vehicle; determine, based on the one or more driver-specific factors associated with the driver of the vehicle in combination with the one or more risks, a set of safety protocols calculated to mitigate the hazard, the set of safety protocols including: a first protocol that includes instructions to provide a notification to a driver of the vehicle; and a second protocol that includes instructions to cause a sensitivity of the braking system to increase in accordance with the one or more driver-specific factors; and provide the set of safety protocols to the vehicle, wherein the vehicle is configured to execute the first protocol upon reaching a first predetermined distance from the hazard and to execute the second protocol upon reaching a second predetermined distance from the hazard. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The vehicle system of claim 14, wherein the instructions further cause the system to at least: receive a second location associated with a second vehicle; determine, based at least in part on input received from the second vehicle, that a second hazard has been encountered by the second vehicle; and store information related to the second hazard in a memory with respect to the second location. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The vehicle system of claim 15, wherein the instructions further cause the system to at least: determine that the second hazard is within the vicinity of the vehicle; determine a second set of safety protocols calculated to mitigate the second hazard; and provide the second set of safety protocols to the vehicle. ### Claim 17 (depends on 14) The vehicle system of claim 14, wherein the vicinity of the vehicle is a specific distance from the vehicle. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The vehicle system of claim 17, wherein the vicinity of the vehicle is a distance calculated based on the speed of the vehicle. ### Claim 19 (depends on 14) The vehicle system of claim 14, wherein the set of safety protocols also includes an instruction to activate a function of the vehicle. ### Claim 20 (depends on 14) The vehicle system of claim 14, wherein the vehicle system receives condition information for the vehicle, and the set of safety protocols is calculated to mitigate the hazard using the provided condition information.