Patent ID: 11872981
Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H | IPC B  H

Claim 10:
11. A non-transitory computer readable media program product executable by one or more processors, configured to cause the one or more processors to execute operations comprising:
acquiring an environment data set (UDS) using environment sensors of a motor vehicle;
transmitting the environment data set (UDS) to a cloud computer;
generating a supplemental data set (EDS) by the cloud computer for supplementing the environment data set (UDS), wherein the supplemental data set (EDS) includes environmental information characterized by external sensors not on the vehicle, and wherein the supplemental data set (EDS) for supplementing the environment data set (UDS) is selected using a mapping of the environment data set (UDS) to the supplemental data set (EDS);
combining the environment data set (UDS) with the supplemental data set (EDS) in order to generate a supplemented environment data set (UDS′); and
transmitting the supplemented environment data set (UDS′) to the motor vehicle for use in a driver assistance function of the motor vehicle.