US 11,772,656 B2
Enhanced vehicle operation
Apurbaa Mallik, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Kaushik Balakrishnan, Mountain View, CA (US); Vijay Nagasamy, Fremont, CA (US); Praveen Narayanan, San Jose, CA (US); and Sowndarya Sundar, Mountain View, CA (US)
Assigned to Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US)
Filed by Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US)
Filed on Jul. 8, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/923,367.
Prior Publication US 2022/0009498 A1, Jan. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. B60W 40/00 (2006.01); B60W 40/02 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06V 10/75 (2022.01)
CPC B60W 40/02 (2013.01) [B60W 60/005 (2020.02); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06V 10/751 (2022.01); B60W 2420/42 (2013.01); B60W 2555/20 (2020.02)] 16 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:
collect an image with a second vehicle sensor;
input the image to a machine learning program trained by generating a synthetic image by adjusting respective color values of one or more pixels of a reference image based on a specified meteorological optical range from a first vehicle sensor to simulated fog, inputting the synthetic image to theft machine learning program to train the machine learning program to identify a meteorological optical range from the first vehicle sensor to actual fog;
output, from the machine learning program, the meteorological optical range from the second vehicle sensor to the actual fog; and
actuate one or more vehicle components based on the meteorological optical range from the vehicle sensor to the actual fog,
wherein the instructions further include instructions to actuate a first component when the meteorological optical range from the second vehicle sensor to the actual fog is above a first threshold for the first component to operate without manual input, and to actuate a second component when the meteorological optical range from the second vehicle sensor to the actual fog is above a second threshold for the second component to operate without manual input.