Abstract: A method for prioritizing potential threats identified by vehicle active safety systems. The method includes providing context information including map information, vehicle position information, traffic assessment information, road condition information, weather condition information, and vehicle state information. The method calculates a system context value for each active safety system using the context information. Each active safety system provides a system threat level value, a system braking value, a system steering value, and a system throttle value. The method calculates an overall threat level value using all of the system context values and all of the system threat level values. The method then provides a braking request value to vehicle brakes based on all of the system braking values, a throttle request value to a vehicle throttle based on all of the system throttle values, and a steering request value to vehicle steering based on all of the system steering values.

Abstract: A system and method for providing lane changing maneuvers in an autonomously driven vehicle. The vehicle includes a navigation controller that provides a planned route for the vehicle to follow and a vehicle controller that receives route information from the navigation controller and provides steering, braking and throttle control for the vehicle to follow the route. Either the navigation controller or the vehicle controller may initiate a lane change maneuver to cause the vehicle to be steered from a travel lane to an adjacent lane. In response to the lane change requirement, the navigation controller provides a route segment to the vehicle controller and a lane-change zone so that the vehicle controller can steer the vehicle to the adjacent lane while in the lane-change zone.

Abstract: Methods and systems for dynamically prioritizing target areas to monitor around a vehicle are provided. The system, for example, may include, but is not limited to a sensor, a global positioning system receiver, and a processor communicatively coupled to the sensor and the global positioning system receiver. The processor is configured to determine a location of the vehicle and based upon data from the global positioning system receiver, determine a projected path the vehicle is traveling upon, prioritize target areas based upon the determined location, heading and the projected path, and analyze data from the sensor based upon the prioritized target areas.

Abstract: A method for prioritizing potential threats identified by vehicle active safety systems. The method includes providing context information including map information, vehicle position information, traffic assessment information, road condition information, weather condition information, and vehicle state information. The method calculates a system context value for each active safety system using the context information. Each active safety system provides a system threat level value, a system braking value, a system steering value, and a system throttle value. The method calculates an overall threat level value using all of the system context values and all of the system threat level values. The method then provides a braking request value to vehicle brakes based on all of the system braking values, a throttle request value to a vehicle throttle based on all of the system throttle values, and a steering request value to vehicle steering based on all of the system steering values.

Abstract: A system and method for providing lane changing maneuvers in an autonomously driven vehicle. The vehicle includes a navigation controller that provides a planned route for the vehicle to follow and a vehicle controller that receives route information from the navigation controller and provides steering, braking and throttle control for the vehicle to follow the route. Either the navigation controller or the vehicle controller may initiate a lane change maneuver to cause the vehicle to be steered from a travel lane to an adjacent lane. In response to the lane change requirement, the navigation controller provides a route segment to the vehicle controller and a lane-change zone so that the vehicle controller can steer the vehicle to the adjacent lane while in the lane-change zone.

Abstract: A computer network remote data mirroring system writes update data both to a local data device and to a local, chronologically sequenced journal storage area, or writelog device. A graphical user interface enables a user to create and configure throttles, which are user-defined tests and actions evaluated by the primary mirror daemon to regulate network bandwidth, CPU, and writelog device utilization during data update mirroring. Network bandwidth throttling enables a predetermined portion of the network bandwidth to be assigned to remote data mirroring based on user-selected criteria. CPU throttling enables a user to control the amount of time the local data storage unit will wait prior to returning control to applications after an update. Writelog device throttling prevents a memory overflow condition by dynamically assigning memory to the writelog device by chaining writelog device extensions to the writelog device.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for indicating perfusion and oxygen saturation trends in oximetry. In transmittance and reflectance oximetry, LEDs (40, 42) are typically employed to expose tissue to light at two different wavelengths. The light transmitted through, or reflected by, the tissue is received by a detector (38) where signals proportional to the intensity of light are produced. These signals are then processed by oximeter circuitry (14, 16) to determine oxygen saturation, pulse rate, and perfusion. Displays (20) are provided including a display (132, 134) of the change in the oxygen saturation during a specified interval. This display may include first (132) and second (134) trend indication displays that indicate when the oxygen saturation has either been increasing or decreasing at a rate in excess of some predetermined level. Preferably, these displays are triangular, upwardly and downwardly directed light-emitting diodes.