US 10,380,889 B2 · Determining car positions

Abstract

Examples provided herein describe a method for determining car positions. For example, a physical processor of an edge computing device may receive position data for a legacy car and information about a make and model of the legacy car. The first edge device may also receive, from a sensor-rich car, a set of sensor data about a set of observed cars in the vicinity of the sensor-rich car, a set of position data for the set of observed cars, and a set of visual data of the set of observed cars, wherein the set of observed cars includes the legacy car and the sensor-rich car. The edge device may then determine an updated position for the legacy car based on the set of position data for the set of observed cars, the set of visual data, and the set of sensor data and provide the updated position of the legacy car.

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Dependent claims

A method for determining car positions, the method comprising:

receiving, at an edge device, position data from a mobile device associated with a legacy car, the position data comprising global position information for the legacy car;
receiving, at the edge device, sensor data from a sensor-rich car, the sensor data comprising position information, visual information, and distance information about one or more observed cars in the vicinity of the sensor-rich car;
determining, by the edge device, an updated position for the legacy car based on a combination of the position data from the mobile device and the sensor data from the sensor-rich car;
and
providing, by the edge device, the updated position for the legacy car to one or more of the legacy car and the sensor-rich car.

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A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions executable by a physical processor of a computing device for determining car positions, the machine-readable storage medium comprising:

instructions to receive position data from a mobile device associated with a legacy car, the position data comprising global position information for a legacy car;
instructions to receive sensor data from a sensor-rich car, the sensor data comprising position information, visual information, and distance information about one or more observed cars in the vicinity of the sensor-rich car;
instructions to correlate car information about legacy car with the sensor data;
instructions to determine an updated position for the legacy car based on the correlation;
and
instructions to provide the updated position for the legacy car.

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A system for determining car positions, the system comprising:

a physical processor that implements machine readable instructions that cause the system to:
receive information from a mobile device associated with a legacy car, the information comprising position data of the legacy car and information about a make and model of the legacy car;
receive, from a sensor-rich car, a set of sensor data about a set of observed cars in the vicinity of the sensor-rich car, the set of sensor data comprising a set of position data for the set of observed cars, and a set of visual data of the set of observed cars, wherein the set of observed cars includes the legacy car and the sensor-rich car;
correlate information about the legacy car with the set of sensor data, the set of position data, and the set of visual data;
determine an updated position for the legacy car based on the correlation;
and
provide, to the mobile device, the updated position for the legacy car.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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