Patent ID: 11862031
Assignee: MERLIN LABS, INC.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. A method for vehicle collision avoidance comprising:
receiving an audio signal;
determining an utterance hypothesis for the audio signal;
autonomously determining a traffic alert based on the utterance hypothesis;
based on the traffic alert, performing a directed object detection routine with a pretrained classifier to search for an object associated with the traffic alert using vehicle perception data;
based on the directed object detection routine, locating the object associated with the traffic alert, wherein the object detection routine comprises an extended-range search of a restricted search space within a set of camera images, wherein the restricted search space is based on an estimated position of the object, wherein the estimated position of the object is based on aircraft position data from an Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B); and
determining a vehicle command based on the identification of the object.