US 11,755,029 B2
Methods and systems for providing remote assistance via pre-stored image data
Joshua Herbach, Mountain View, CA (US)
Assigned to Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 1, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/60,305.
Application 17/060,305 is a continuation of application No. 15/704,213, filed on Sep. 14, 2017, granted, now 10,816,991.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/531,082, filed on Jul. 11, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0018930 A1, Jan. 21, 2021
Int. Cl. G05D 1/02 (2020.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/10 (2006.01); G01C 21/26 (2006.01); G06F 16/00 (2019.01)
CPC G05D 1/0246 (2013.01) [G05D 1/0038 (2013.01); G05D 1/0055 (2013.01); G05D 1/10 (2013.01); G01C 21/26 (2013.01); G06F 16/00 (2019.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving, at a computing system coupled to a vehicle, sensor data representative of an environment of the vehicle from a vehicle sensor;
determining, by the computing system, a detection confidence for an object in the environment is below a threshold confidence;
identifying a portion of the sensor data corresponding to the object during a period of time leading up to the determination that the detection confidence for the object is below the threshold confidence;
based on determining the detection confidence for the object in the environment is below the threshold confidence, transmitting, by the computing system, a request for remote assistance to a remote computing device, wherein the request for remote assistance includes the identified portion of the sensor data corresponding to the object during the period of time leading up to the determination that the detection confidence for the object is below the threshold confidence; and
controlling, by the computing system, the vehicle based on an input received from the remote computing device.