US 12,223,727 B2
Object detection around vehicle charging stations
Stuart C. Salter, White Lake, MI (US); Brendan Francis Diamond, Grosse Pointe, MI (US); Timilehin Ogunbekun, Livonia, MI (US); John Robert Van Wiemeersch, Novi, MI (US); and Pietro Buttolo, Dearborn Heights, MI (US)
Assigned to Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US)
Filed by Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US)
Filed on Jun. 2, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/830,557.
Prior Publication US 2023/0391216 A1, Dec. 7, 2023
Int. Cl. G06V 20/52 (2022.01); B60L 53/14 (2019.01); B60L 53/37 (2019.01); G06V 20/00 (2022.01); G06V 20/40 (2022.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01); G08G 1/14 (2006.01); G08G 1/16 (2006.01)
CPC G06V 20/52 (2022.01) [B60L 53/37 (2019.02); G06V 20/38 (2022.01); G06V 20/44 (2022.01); G06V 40/103 (2022.01); G08G 1/146 (2013.01); G08G 1/149 (2013.01); G08G 1/164 (2013.01); B60L 53/14 (2019.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising:
vehicle charging stations disposed within an area;
stationary sensors disposed with respective fields of view of the area;
a stationary node computer including a first processor and a first memory and communicatively coupled to the charging stations and the stationary sensors, the first memory storing instructions executable by the first processor such that the stationary node computer is programmed to:
authorize a request from a vehicle to access the charging station;
identify an object, detected in the area in data from one or more of the stationary sensors, to be tracked with respect to the vehicle;
wherein the object to be tracked with respect to the vehicle is identified based on a type of the object, an attribute of the object and an attribute of the vehicle; and
transmit data about the object to the vehicle.