Sony patents car system that predicts danger from nearby objects
Sony describes a system for vehicles that predicts how nearby objects might move in the future. It calculates a danger level based on these predictions and shows that risk to the driver.
In the filing’s own words
The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that enable information for avoiding danger to be presented more appropriately to a user of a moving body such as a vehicle. An information processing apparatus according to the present technology includes a prediction unit which predicts movement information indicating a future movement of an object around a moving body and accident information indicating a movement of the object in a case where an accident occurs; a calculation unit which calculates a degree of danger of the object on the basis of the movement information and the accident information; and a presentation control unit which presents, to a user of the moving body, danger prediction information indicating the degree of danger of the object. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a moving body such as a vehicle.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: a prediction unit which predicts movement information indicating a future movement of an object around a moving body and accident information indicating a movement of the object in a case where an accident occurs; a calculation unit which calculates a degree of danger of the object on a basis of the movement information and the accident information; and a presentation control unit which presents, to a user of the moving body, danger prediction information indicating the degree of danger of the object.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (SONY GROUP CORPORATION)
- Official title
- INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
- Publication number
- US20260296418A1
- Application number
- 19480712
- Filed
- Apr 19, 2024
- Published
- Oct 1, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
B60W 30/0956 Operations & transportB60W 50/14 Operations & transportB60W 2050/146 Operations & transportMore from Sony in Cars & transport
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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