US 11,954,471 B2
In-vehicle synthetic sensor orchestration and remote synthetic sensor service
Brett Francis, Redwood City, CA (US); and Nicholas Jay Lefler, Canton, GA (US)
Assigned to Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed by Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed on Apr. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/727,592.
Application 17/727,592 is a continuation of application No. 16/835,070, filed on Mar. 30, 2020, granted, now 11,314,495.
Prior Publication US 2022/0317986 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G05B 19/418 (2006.01); G06F 8/61 (2018.01)
CPC G06F 8/61 (2013.01) [G05B 19/4188 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
one or more computing devices storing program instructions for implementing a synthetic sensor service for vehicles, wherein the program instructions when executed by the one or more computing devices:
receive instructions for one or more synthetic sensors to be deployed to a vehicle; and
provide, based on the received instructions, one or more synthetic sensor packages for deployment to a synthetic sensor orchestration environment of the vehicle, wherein the provided one or more synthetic sensor packages comprise:
code defining the one or more synthetic sensors and one or more mappings that map the one or more synthetic sensors to one or more existing on-board physical sensors of the vehicle or other synthetic sensors of the vehicle; and
one or more annotations, in addition to the code, defining inputs, outputs, or attributes of the one or more synthetic sensors, wherein the one or more annotations are formatted to allow determining one or more placement locations for the one or more synthetic sensors without parsing the code.