US 12,227,201 B2
Adaptive perception by vehicle sensors
Jianbo Lu, Northville, MI (US); Timothy Mark Feldkamp, Ann Arbor, MI (US); Sanghyun Hong, Ann Arbor, MI (US); Ling Zhu, Canton, MI (US); and Mitch McConnell, Temperance, MI (US)
Assigned to Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US)
Filed by Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US)
Filed on Oct. 12, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/068,151.
Prior Publication US 2022/0111859 A1, Apr. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. G08G 1/16 (2006.01); B60W 30/095 (2012.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G06N 3/04 (2023.01); G06N 3/08 (2023.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01)
CPC B60W 60/001 (2020.02) [B60W 30/0956 (2013.01); G01C 21/3453 (2013.01); G01C 21/3602 (2013.01); G06N 3/04 (2013.01); G06N 3/08 (2013.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01); G06V 20/588 (2022.01); G08G 1/16 (2013.01); B60W 2420/403 (2013.01); B60W 2520/06 (2013.01); B60W 2520/10 (2013.01); B60W 2552/53 (2020.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising a computer including a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to cause the processor to:
determine a perception zone of interest comprising one or more areas around a vehicle on which a driver's attention is focused via a trained perception model that is trained with driver eye gaze data, wherein the perception zone of interest is determined based on correlating vehicle parameters including at least a vehicle direction and a vehicle speed with the one or more areas around the vehicle;
process sensor data from a subset of sensors that correspond to the perception zone of interest that was determined based on the one or more areas around the vehicle on which the driver's attention is focused, and pause processing or reduce sampling of other sensor data from other sensors that do not correspond to the perception zone of interest to conserve power and/or computational resources;
determine an altered vehicle route and trajectory based on the sensor data from the subset of sensors that correspond to the perception zone of interest; and
operate the vehicle to traverse the altered vehicle route and trajectory.