US 11,897,460 B2
Risk processing for vehicles having autonomous driving capabilities
Hsun-Hsien Chang, Brookline, MA (US); Noam Weinstein, Cambridge, MA (US); Eric Wolff, Cambridge, MA (US); Philipp Robbel, Cambridge, MA (US); Jacob C. Cheuvront, Waltham, MA (US); Karl Iagnemma, Belmont, MA (US); and Katarzyna Anna Marczuk, Singapore (SG)
Assigned to Motional AD LLC, Boston, MA (US)
Filed by Motional AD LLC, Boston, MA (US)
Filed on May 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/320,887.
Application 17/320,887 is a continuation of application No. 16/013,459, filed on Jun. 20, 2018, granted, now 11,008,000.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/522,254, filed on Jun. 20, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0339742 A1, Nov. 4, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B60W 30/09 (2012.01); G07C 5/00 (2006.01); B60W 30/095 (2012.01); B60W 30/18 (2012.01); B60W 30/10 (2006.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60W 30/09 (2013.01) [B60W 30/0953 (2013.01); B60W 30/0956 (2013.01); B60W 30/10 (2013.01); B60W 30/18163 (2013.01); B60W 50/0097 (2013.01); G07C 5/008 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0075 (2013.01); B60W 2520/06 (2013.01); B60W 2520/10 (2013.01); B60W 2540/30 (2013.01); B60W 2552/00 (2020.02); B60W 2554/80 (2020.02); B60W 2556/10 (2020.02)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
one or more processors configured to perform operations comprising:
processing data to identify a risk during a current instance of driving a vehicle comprising an autonomous driving capability;
in response to identifying the risk, modifying the autonomous driving capability of the vehicle, wherein the modifying comprises:
determining that the location of the risk is near a current location of the vehicle;
in response to determining that the location of the risk is near the current location of the vehicle, obtaining information about the risk by analyzing signals from one or more sensors associated with the vehicle;
configuring a perception process corresponding to the autonomous driving capability of the vehicle to consider the obtained information about the risk as prior information; and
recognizing one or more objects in a driving environment of the vehicle by applying probabilistic inference to the one or more objects based at least on the prior information; and
causing movement of the vehicle based on modifying the autonomous driving capability of the vehicle.