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Assisted perception for autonomous vehicles

  • US 10,095,236 B1
  • Filed: 11/30/2017
  • Issued: 10/09/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An autonomous vehicle comprising:

  • a set of sensors configured to receive data, wherein the data represents objects of an environment of the autonomous vehicle;

    a control system, configured to operate the autonomous vehicle; and

    one or more processors configured to;

    determine, based on the received data, at least one object of the environment that has a detection confidence below a threshold, wherein the detection confidence is indicative of a likelihood that the determined object is correctly identified in the environment; and

    based on the at least one object having a detection confidence below the threshold;

    determine at least one natural-language question associated with the at least one object having a detection confidence below the threshold,cause the natural-language question to be displayed to a human operator;

    receive an answer to the at least one natural-language question from the human operator providing an object indication, andprovide instructions to control the autonomous vehicle by the control system based on the object indication.

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