Patent ID: 11904888
Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B

Claim 9:
10. A method for controlling autonomously-controllable vehicle functions, comprising:
providing a database device containing database information on communication signals from partner subjects, action objectives and scenarios that are associated with a plurality of situation contexts, wherein the situation contexts correspond to a surrounding area related to a vehicle and at least one partner subject;
providing an autonomous vehicle that can be communicatively connected to the database device and has autonomously controllable vehicle functions, a control device having a programmable unit, and a surround sensor device;
acquiring, by the surround sensor device, sensor signals from the surrounding area of the vehicle and from the at least one partner subject, and capturing communication signals originating from the at least one partner subject;
determining a situation context by evaluating the received sensor signals of the surrounding area of the vehicle and the at least one partner subject and the communication signals originating therefrom to associate the received sensor signals with a scenario corresponding to the situation context based upon the database information; and
converting, taking into account the determined situation context, the captured communication signals into control signals for the autonomously controllable vehicle functions.