Patent ID: 9652257
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: B60R,G06F,G06Q,G07C,H04L

Claim:
1. A vehicle safety system, comprising: multiple processors connected together into a multiprocessor system, wherein the multiprocessor system is configured to operate a vehicle system, and wherein the vehicle system comprises a control processor; a first set of sensors connected to the multiple processors in the multiprocessor system configured to gather data from operations associated with the vehicle; a second set of sensors comprising an infrared sensor attached to the vehicle and oriented to gather data from the external environment around the vehicle; an infrared processor connected to the infrared sensor for controlling the infrared sensor, wherein the infrared processor is collocated with the infrared sensor; at least one processor in the multiprocessor system configured to operate a fusion application, wherein the fusion application is configured to: receive data from the multiprocessor system, wherein the data includes sensor data from the environment around the vehicle and data related to the vehicle operation, merge the data from the multiprocessor system into a first message related to the operation of a vehicle system, receive additional data related to operation of the vehicle system from the multiprocessor system, merge the additional data from the multiprocessor system into a second message related to the operation of the vehicle system, attach a message label to the messages, wherein the message label includes a priority label, and wherein the priority is based on a predetermined ranking scheme, use a priority manager to rank the first and second message based on the priority label, select and send the message to the control processor based on priority ranking, process the new message according to the message label.