US Patent 10572748 Autonomous vehicle adaptive parallel image processing system

An adaptive parallel imaging processing system in a vehicle is provided. The system may include, but is not limited to, a plurality of processors and a resource management system including, but not limited to, an execution monitor, the execution monitor configured to calculate an average utilization of each of the plurality of processors over a moving window, and a service scheduler controlling a request queue for each of the plurality of processors, the service scheduler scheduling image processing tasks in the respective request queue for the each of the plurality of processors based upon the average utilization of each of the plurality of processors, the capabilities of each of the plurality of processors, and a priority associated with each image processing task, wherein an autonomous vehicle control system is configured to generate the instructions to control the at least one vehicle system based upon the processed image processing tasks.