Patent ID: 11928149
Assignee: TOYOTA CONNECTED NORTH AMERICA, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A method, comprising:
identifying search parameters from a request received in a selected vehicle that is equipped with at least one camera that specifies a target that is to be identified and a time window for analyzing visual data from the camera;
pre-processing the visual data that is acquired during and prior to the request by determining semantic labels for objects in the visual data, including sniffing the semantic labels from an autonomous driving module of the selected vehicle that is processing the visual data for autonomous operation of the selected vehicle, wherein pre-processing includes using a semantic segmentation model that is built-in with the autonomous driving module and that defines boundaries of objects within the visual data;
indexing, in a visual inventory of a data store in the selected vehicle, the visual data according to the semantic labels;
analyzing the visual data according to the search parameters to identify the target by using at least a machine vision model executing on a processor within the selected vehicle, wherein the visual data includes at least camera data; and
communicating detection results about whether the visual data includes the target to a remote device from which the request originated and the index of content that is available at the selected vehicle, including the semantic labels, wherein communicating the detection results and the semantic labels reduces consumption of bandwidth by providing information about contents of the visual inventory for subsequent selection of available vehicles for searching.