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

Claim 0:
1. A method for air traffic control (ATC)-directed collision avoidance on an aircraft comprising:
receiving an air traffic control (ATC) audio signal from a communication system;
determining an utterance hypothesis from the ATC audio signal with automatic speech recognition (ASR);
autonomously determining a traffic advisory by querying the utterance hypothesis with a pre-trained neural network model based on the utterance hypothesis, the traffic advisory comprising an estimated ego-relative position of an object;
locating the object associated with the traffic advisory, comprising: based on aircraft perception data, performing an extended range search with a pretrained classifier, the extended range search directed based on the estimated ego-relative position, wherein the aircraft perception data comprises a set of camera images collected onboard the aircraft, wherein the extended range search is directed by restricting an image pixel search space within the set of camera images based on a proximity of the estimated ego-relative position; and
performing an action based on the location of the object.