US 12,466,420 B2
Target downselection
Shiva Chaitanya Vishwakarma Chandrachary, Toronto (CA); and Martin Miller, Sunnyside, NY (US)
Assigned to Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US)
Filed by Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US)
Filed on Jun. 29, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/344,090.
Prior Publication US 2025/0002030 A1, Jan. 2, 2025
Int. Cl. B60W 50/08 (2020.01); B60W 40/02 (2006.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60W 50/085 (2013.01) [B60W 40/02 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0052 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0075 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
11. A method, comprising:
identifying respective driver assist features that are currently active in a vehicle;
obtaining parameters specifying one or more filters for determining respective sets of target objects for the driver assist features from input data;
applying parameters of a first one of the driver assist features to the input data to output a first target set of one or more targets selected from a set of candidate objects for the first one of the driver assist features;
then applying the parameters of a second one of the driver assist features to output a second target set of one or more targets selected from the set of candidate objects for the second one of the driver assist features;
operating the vehicle according to the first one of the driver assist features by actuating a component of the vehicle based on the first target set of one or more targets; and
operating the vehicle according to the second one of the driver assist features by actuating the component of the vehicle or another component of the vehicle based on the second target set of one or more targets.