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

Claim 17:
18. A method for vehicle collision avoidance comprising:
receiving an audio signal;
determining an utterance hypothesis for the audio signal;
autonomously determining a traffic alert based on the utterance hypothesis;
based on the traffic alert, performing a directed object detection routine with a pretrained classifier to search for an object associated with the traffic alert using vehicle perception data;
based on the directed object detection routine, locating the object associated with the traffic alert; and
determining a vehicle command based on the identification of the object, wherein the method is performed contemporaneously with a closer-range collision avoidance routine, wherein the closer-range collision avoidance routine is performed in substantially real-time using the vehicle perception data and is based on a coarser analysis of the vehicle perception data than the directed object detection routine search.