System and method for intent monitoring of other road actors
AssigneeArgo AI, LLC
InventorJoseph Whinnery
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Abstract
Systems, methods, and autonomous vehicles may obtain one or more images associated with an environment surrounding an autonomous vehicle; determine, based on the one or more images, an orientation of a head worn item of protective equipment of an operator of a vehicle; determine, based on the orientation of the head worn item of protective equipment, a direction of a gaze of the operator and a time period associated with the direction of the gaze of the operator; determine, based on the direction of the gaze of the operator and the time period associated with the direction of the gaze of the operator, a predicted motion path of the vehicle; and control, based on the predicted motion path of the vehicle, at least one autonomous driving operation of the autonomous vehicle.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- obtaining, with at least one processor, one or more images associated with an environment surrounding an autonomous vehicle;
- determining, with the at least one processor, based on the one or more images, an orientation of a head worn item of protective equipment of an operator of a vehicle in the environment surrounding the autonomous vehicle;
- determining, with the at least one processor, based on the orientation of the head worn item of protective equipment, a direction of a gaze of the operator of the vehicle and a time period associated with the direction of the gaze of the operator of the vehicle;
- determining, with the at least one processor, based on the direction of the gaze of the operator of the vehicle and the time period associated with the direction of the gaze of the operator of the vehicle, a predicted motion path of the vehicle;
- and
- controlling, with the at least one processor, based on the predicted motion path of the vehicle, at least one autonomous driving operation of the autonomous vehicle.
A system, comprising:
- one or more processors programmed and/or configured to:
- obtain one or more images associated with an environment surrounding an autonomous vehicle;
- determine, based on the one or more images, an orientation of a head worn item of protective equipment of an operator of a vehicle in the environment surrounding the autonomous vehicle;
- determine, based on the orientation of the head worn item of protective equipment, a direction of a gaze of the operator of the vehicle and a time period associated with the direction of the gaze of the operator of the vehicle;
- determine, based on the direction of the gaze of the operator of the vehicle and the time period associated with the direction of the gaze of the operator of the vehicle, a predicted motion path of the vehicle;
- and
- control, based on the predicted motion path of the vehicle, at least one autonomous driving operation of the autonomous vehicle.
A computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium including program instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
- obtain one or more images associated with an environment surrounding an autonomous vehicle;
- determine, based on the one or more images, an orientation of a head worn item of protective equipment of an operator of a vehicle in the environment surrounding the autonomous vehicle;
- determine, based on the orientation of the head worn item of protective equipment, a direction of a gaze of the operator of the vehicle and a time period associated with the direction of the gaze of the operator of the vehicle;
- determine, based on the direction of the gaze of the operator of the vehicle and the time period associated with the direction of the gaze of the operator of the vehicle, a predicted motion path of the vehicle;
- and
- control, based on the predicted motion path of the vehicle, at least one autonomous driving operation of the autonomous vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.