Patent Document ID: 9679206
Application ID: 15387826
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An apparatus comprising: a set of sensors configured to receive data, wherein the data represents objects of an environment of the apparatus; a control system, configured to operate the apparatus in an autonomous operation mode based on instructions to control the apparatus; and one or more processors of the apparatus configured to: determine, based on the received data, a preliminary object identification of at least one object of the environment that is in partial view of a sensor of the set of sensors that has a detection confidence below a threshold, wherein the detection confidence indicates a likelihood that the determined object is present in the environment; communicate at least a subset of the received data for further processing to a remote computer system responsive to the preliminary object identification; and communicate an object confirmation indicating an object identification that is different than the preliminary object identification to nearby vehicles in response to receiving the object confirmation from the remote computer system.