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US 11,378,978 B2Granted
System and method for reacting to signals
AssigneePony AI Inc.
InventorPiaoyang Cui
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Abstract
Provided herein is a system and method of a vehicle that detects a signal and reacts to the signal. The system comprises one or more sensors; one or more processors; a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the system to perform detecting a signal from a source; determining an intended action of the vehicle based on the detected signal; sending, to the source, a response signal indicative of the intended action; determining whether the source has sent a response to the response signal; and in response to determining that the source has sent a response to the response signal, taking the intended action based on the response to the response signal.
Claims19
A system of a vehicle comprising:
- one or more sensors comprising one or more LiDAR sensors and cameras, wherein the one or more sensors detect a second vehicle that is at least partially behind the vehicle and on a different lane;
- one or more processors;
- and
- a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the system to perform:
- receiving, from the one or more sensors, sensor data comprising the second vehicle;
- determining, based on the sensor data, a location of the second vehicle relative to the vehicle;
- detecting a signal or a lateral movement from the second vehicle,
- based on the location, and the signal or the lateral movement of the second vehicle, determining whether the second vehicle is intending to merge into a lane occupied by the vehicle;
- in response to determining that the second vehicle is intending to merge into the lane occupied by the vehicle, determining whether to yield to permit the second vehicle to merge based on a predicted traffic imbalance across lanes or a predicted congestion in the lane occupied by the vehicle that would result from the second vehicle merging;
- and
- selectively yielding depending on the determination of whether to yield, wherein the selective yielding comprises:
- in response to determining to yield, shining a pulsed light corresponding to a side that the second vehicle is on;
- predicting that the second vehicle will speed up;
- determining whether the second vehicle has sped up;
- in response to determining that the second vehicle has sped up, slowing down the vehicle;
- and
- in response to determining that the second vehicle has not sped up, determining not to yield.
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A method implemented by a computing system including one or more processors and storage media storing machine-readable instructions, wherein the method is performed using the one or more processors, the method comprising:
- receiving, from one or more sensors comprising one or more LiDAR sensors and cameras, sensor data comprising a second vehicle that is at least partially behind the vehicle and on a different lane;
- determining, based on the sensor data, a location of the second vehicle relative to the vehicle;
- detecting a signal or a lateral movement from the second vehicle;
- based on the location, and the signal or the lateral movement of the second vehicle, determining whether the second vehicle is intending to merge into a lane occupied by the vehicle;
- in response to determining that the second vehicle is intending to merge into the lane occupied by the vehicle, determining whether to yield to permit the second vehicle to merge based on a predicted traffic imbalance across lanes or a predicted congestion in the lane occupied by the vehicle that would result from the second vehicle merging;
- and
- selectively yielding depending on the determination of whether to yield, wherein, the selective yielding comprises:
- in response to determining to yield, shining a pulsed light corresponding to a side that the second vehicle is on;
- and
- adjusting a brightness or a frequency of the pulsed light based on a weather or visibility condition.
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A system of a vehicle comprising:
- one or more sensors comprising one or more LiDAR sensors and cameras, wherein the one or more sensors detect a second vehicle that is at least partially behind the vehicle and on a different lane;
- one or more processors;
- and
- a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the system to perform:
- receiving, from the one or more sensors, sensor data comprising the second vehicle;
- determining, based on the sensor data, a location of the second vehicle relative to the vehicle;
- detecting a signal or a lateral movement from the second vehicle;
- based on the location, and the signal or the lateral movement of the second vehicle, determining whether the second vehicle is intending to merge into a lane occupied by the vehicle;
- in response to determining that the second vehicle is intending to merge into the lane occupied by the vehicle, determining whether to yield to permit the second vehicle to merge based on a predicted traffic imbalance across lanes or a predicted congestion in the lane occupied by the vehicle that would result from the second vehicle merging;
- and
- selectively yielding depending on the determination of whether to yield, wherein, the selective yielding comprises:
- in response to determining to yield, shining a pulsed light corresponding to a side that the second vehicle is on;
- and
- adjusting a brightness or a frequency of the pulsed light based on a weather or visibility condition.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.