Patent ID: 11875548
Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 17:
18. A method for an attention-based perception in a vehicle, comprising:
utilizing a camera device configured to provide an image of an operating environment of the vehicle to provide the image;
within a computerized perception device,
monitoring the image;
analyzing sensor data to identify at least one feature in the image as corresponding to an object in the operating environment of the vehicle and assign a score for the at least one feature based upon one of an identification of the object, a location of the object or a behavior of the object;
defining a plurality of candidate regions of interest upon the image, wherein each of the plurality of candidate regions of interest includes a portion of the image;
for each of the plurality of candidate regions of interest, correlating the score for the at least one feature to the plurality of candidate regions of interest to accrue a total region score;
selecting a portion of the plurality of candidate regions of interest for analysis based upon the total region score for each of the plurality of candidate regions of interest; and
analyzing the portion of the plurality of candidate regions of interest to generate a path of travel output; and

operating a vehicle control device receiving the path of travel output and controlling the vehicle based upon the path of travel output.