US 11,899,457 B1Granted

Augmenting autonomous driving with remote viewer recommendation

AssigneeMobileye Vision Technologies Ltd.

InventorsRobert Vaughn, Casey Baron

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Abstract

Autonomous vehicles are an exciting prospect to the future of driving. However, concerns about the decision-making made by the AI controlling a vehicle has been of concern, particularly in light of high-profile accidents. We can alleviate some concern, introduce better decisions, and also train an AI to make better decisions by introducing a remote viewer's, e.g., a human's, reaction to a possibly complex environment surrounding a vehicle that includes a potential threat to the vehicle. One or more remote viewer may provide a recommended response to the threat that may be incorporated in whole or in part in how the vehicle reacts. Various ways to engage and utilize remote viewers are proposed to improve the likelihood of receiving useful recommendations, including modifying how the environment is presented to a remote viewer to best suit the remote viewer, e.g., perhaps present the threat in a game.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A navigation system for a vehicle, the navigation system comprising:

at least one processor comprising circuitry and a memory, wherein the memory incudes instructions that when executed by the circuitry cause the at least one processor to:
receive sensor data acquired by at least one sensor associated with the vehicle from an environment of the vehicle;
analyze the sensor data to identify at least one potential threat to the vehicle in the environment of the vehicle;
generate at least one construct representing the environment of the vehicle and the at least one potential threat;
cause the at least one construct to be transmitted to a plurality of remote viewers;
generate, using an artificial intelligence model, at least one candidate response to the potential threat,
receive a plurality of proposed responses to the potential threat from the plurality of remote viewers;
select one or more proposed responses from the plurality of proposed responses, wherein selecting the one or more proposed responses includes identifying at least one common characteristic shared by the one or more proposed responses;
determine an action to perform responsive to the threat based at least in part on a comparison of the at least one candidate response to the selected one or more proposed responses;
and
cause the vehicle to perform the determined action.

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Facts

Application: 18/077,752Filed 8 Dec 2022 · continuation
Priority: 26 Feb 2019
Published: US 2023/0315093 A15 Oct 2023
Granted: 13 Feb 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification20 codes

G05D 1/2245
Optic: providing the operator with a purely computer-generated representation of the environment of the vehicle, e.g. virtual reality
B60W 30/09
Active safety systems predicting or avoiding probable or impending collision or attempting to minimise its consequences: taking automatic action…
B60W 40/02
Estimation or calculation of non-directly measurable driving parameters for road vehicle drive control systems not related to the control of a…:…
B60W 60/0015
Planning or execution of driving tasks: specially adapted for safety

Family

Application16/286,245Parent of this continuation · filed 26 Feb 2019
US 11,561,540 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2019/0196471 A1Published application
US 2023/0315093 A1Published application
US 11,899,457 B1This patent

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