Patent ID: 9043130
Filing Date: 2015-05-26
Classification: B60K,B60R,B60W,G01C,G01S,G02B,G06F,G06K,G06N,G06Q,G06T,G07C,G08C,G08G,H04L,H04N,H04W

Abstract:
1. An object avoidance system comprising: a vehicle including a plurality of sensors; an analysis module adapted to receive signals from the plurality of sensors; a notification module adapted to generate and send one or more notifications based on an analysis performed by the analysis module; and an action module adapted to cause the vehicle to perform an automatic or semi-automatic action based on the analysis, wherein one or more of the plurality of sensors query one or more nearby objects that reply with a response, the one or more nearby objects at least including a communications device associated with a person, wherein the query is a specialized query indicating that the query is only being used for determining location information, direction information, velocity information, and type of object information, thereby not compromising personal or sensitive information on the communications device.