Patents Examined by Mohamed Barakat
  • Patent number: 11687800
    Abstract: Optimizing and/or personalizing activities to a user through artificial intelligence and/or virtual reality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: P TECH, LLC
    Inventors: Peter M. Bonutti, Justin E. Beyers, Tonya M. Bierman
  • Patent number: 11685384
    Abstract: The invention is related to a method for driver alertness detection, The method comprises the steps of determining a vanishing point of a vehicle in motion; determining over time, by an eye tracking device, a set of gaze points of the driver of the vehicle; determining a gaze movement from the set of gaze points; and identifying an alertness of the driver, based on a direction of the gaze movement relative to the vanishing point being outward. Further, the invention is related to an eye tracking device for driver alertness detection, an alertness detection system, a computer program, and a computer-readable medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Tobii AB
    Inventor: Andrew Ratcliff
  • Patent number: 11682301
    Abstract: The automatic control system of the smart bus platform includes a plurality of electronic devices provided in the shelter and a control unit. The control unit controls at least one of the plurality of electronic devices based on at least one of the number of users and a prospective staying time of the users in the shelter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: E.P. Korea Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hae Yong Lee
  • Patent number: 11682251
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for authenticating devices and using an authenticated device to determine an access decision include a computing system including a network interface circuit that facilitates communication via a network and a processing circuit comprising a processor and memory. The processing circuit approves or denies a request to access a secured device. The processing circuit comprises an access management circuit that receives and interprets the access request to identify a user, an authentication database storing authentication data, and a workforce database storing credential data. The access management circuit retrieves the authentication data from the authentication database to determine the user device associated with the access request. The access management circuit retrieves the credential data from the workforce database based on the identification of the user and the authentication data to determine an access decision and approve or deny access to the secured device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Darren M. Goetz, Viva Gupta, Margaret S. Honeycutt, Dennis E. Montenegro, Matthew Pearce, Erick V. Tengelitsch
  • Patent number: 11677847
    Abstract: Techniques are described for using sensor data derived from a monitoring system to drive personalized content. Sensor data captured by a monitoring system may be used to determine attributes of users of the monitoring system and/or attributes of a property monitored by the monitoring system. The determined attributes may be used to select content to present to users of the monitoring system. Content presentation may be made through the monitoring system and may be triggered based on events detected by the monitoring system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Stephen Scott Trundle, Jean-Paul Martin, Alison Jane Slavin
  • Patent number: 11676482
    Abstract: A hand-held device having a touch sensitive surface uses a relative distance from an origin location to each of a plurality of touch zones of the touch sensitive surface activated by a user to select a one of the plurality of touch zones as being intended for activation by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Universal Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Arsham Hatambeiki, Jeffrey Kohanek, Naimisaranya D. Busek
  • Patent number: 11667265
    Abstract: A controller of a vehicle detects persons that are approaching the vehicle and uses sensors to collect data regarding the persons to determine whether a security risk exists. In one approach, the collected data is used to determine whether each person is associated with the vehicle. In response to determining that at least one of the persons is unknown, a security risk is evaluated based on data from monitoring of the environment of the vehicle. In response to determining that a security risk score exceeds a threshold, one or more actions for the vehicle are performed to make the vehicle more secure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Richard Noel Bielby
  • Patent number: 11670168
    Abstract: A method at a computing device within an Intelligent Transportation System, the method including detecting a traffic event at the computing device; determining no fixed roadside unit is available from the computing device; establishing an Internet Protocol connection from the computing device to a network node; and sending a traffic event message from the computing device to the network node, the traffic event message providing information for the traffic event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Michael Peter Montemurro, Stephen McCann, Adrian Buckley
  • Patent number: 11661075
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for intelligent driving monitoring systems, advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous driving systems, and providing alerts to the driver of a vehicle, based on anomalies detected between driver behavior and environment captured by the outward facing camera. Various aspects of the driver, which may include his direction of sight, point of focus, posture, gaze, is determined by image processing of the upper visible body of the driver, by a driver facing camera in the vehicle. Other aspects of environment around the vehicle captured by the multitude of cameras in the vehicle are used to correlate driver behavior and actions with what is happening outside to detect and warn on anomalies, prevent accidents, provide feedback to the driver, and in general provide a safer driver experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: NETRADYNE, INC.
    Inventors: David Jonathan Julian, Venkata Sreekanta Reddy Annapureddy, Sandeep Pandya, Arvind Yedla, Dale Alan Willis, Venkata Ramanan Venkatachalam Jayaraman, Suresh Babu Yanamala, Avneesh Agrawal, Veeresh Taranalli, Jaeyoon Kim
  • Patent number: 11663851
    Abstract: An implicit bias monitoring system is provided. The system receives sensor data including video and audio that are captured during an interaction between a first individual and a second individual. The system determines a set of attributes associated with the interaction based on the received sensor data, the set of attributes comprising at least one of race and gender of the second individual. The system detects an implicit bias based on a combination of the determined set of attributes and a bias profile. The system generates an alert based on the detected implicit bias.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Justin David Weisz, Abhishek Bhandwaldar, Maryam Ashoori, Arunima Chaudhary, Benjamin Hoover
  • Patent number: 11663868
    Abstract: When attending an event at a venue, the attendee typically presents ticket information that is scanned by a venue scanner. The process associated with scanning can be dispensed with, which can improve attendee experiences, reduce costs associated with managing a venue, as well as other advantages. For example, instead of scanning a ticket at a point of ingress to the venue, a device of the user can self-scan the ticket, and then present indicia that indicates this process has occurred. The indicia can be presented to a guest services representative, who can verify that a valid ticket was redeemed by merely observing the indicia and without scanning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Flash Seats, LLC
    Inventors: Samuel Gerace, Michael Rojas, Matthew Servant
  • Patent number: 11654923
    Abstract: The present invention provides an act-of-looking-aside determination device in which a determination reference range changer changes a determination reference range in an act-of-looking-aside determiner by a predetermined angle in a curve direction based on information on a curve direction detected by a curve detector, while when a line-of-sight direction of a driver detected by a line-of-sight direction detector follows a relative direction of another vehicle acquired by a relative direction acquirer as viewed from an own vehicle with respect to the other vehicle detected by an other-vehicle detector, it is not determined that the driver is looking aside even when the line-of-sight direction is out of the determination reference range not corresponding to an act of looking aside. Thus, an erroneous determination of an act of looking aside can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yiyang Li
  • Patent number: 11657710
    Abstract: According to the disclosure, there may be provided a vehicle control device and method and, in particular, a vehicle control device and method that allows an emergency vehicle to smoothly travel without disturbance by other vehicles by analyzing the location and driving lane of the emergency vehicle and providing a notification to vehicles in the same lane as the emergency vehicle according to a predetermined condition when the emergency vehicle approaches and allowing the vehicles to change their driving lane or to change preset variable parameter values of the driving assist system applied to the vehicle and activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: HL KLEMOVE CORP.
    Inventor: JiYeol Park
  • Patent number: 11657662
    Abstract: An exemplary method includes operating an access control device in a standalone mode, which involves controlling a locked/unlocked state of the access control device locally, and operating a wireless transceiver of the access control device in a lower-power state in which the wireless transceiver is operable to receive a lockdown signal from an external device. The method further includes operating the access control device in a networked lockdown mode in response to receiving the lockdown signal from the external device. Operating the access control device in the networked lockdown mode involves placing the access control device in a locked state, establishing a wireless communication connection with the external device via the wireless transceiver while operating the wireless transceiver in a higher-power state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Schlage Lock Company LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Setter, Joseph W. Baumgarte
  • Patent number: 11640717
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using image analysis techniques to assess abnormal vehicle operating conditions are disclosed. According to aspects, a computing device may access and analyze image data depicting an individual(s) within a vehicle. Based on the depicted individuals(s) and optionally on other data, the computing device may determine that an abnormal condition exists. In response, the computing device may generate a notification and transmit the notification to an electronic device of an individual associated with the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
    Inventors: Yuntao Li, Dingchao Zhang, Jeffrey S. Myers
  • Patent number: 11634151
    Abstract: The present invention obtains a processor, a processing method, a warning system, and a straddle-type vehicle capable of improving both the rider's safety and the rider's comfort. A processor (20) includes: an acquisition section that acquires surrounding environment information corresponding to output of a surrounding environment detector (11) during travel of a straddle-type vehicle (100); a determination section that determines necessity of warning operation provided to the rider and generated by the warning system (1); and a control section that makes an alarm (30) perform the warning operation in the case where the determination section determines that the warning operation is necessary. The acquisition section further acquires helmet posture direction information corresponding to output of a helmet posture direction detector (13) during the travel of the straddle-type vehicle (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Lars Pfau
  • Patent number: 11634987
    Abstract: A safe early warning method and device for full-section tunneling of a tunnel featuring dynamic water and weak surrounding rock, comprising establishing a dynamic coordinate system with an origin thereof moving along a tunnel excavation line, recording the moving distance of the origin, conducting three-dimensional laser scanning with the origin as a center to obtain point cloud data including coordinate data, collecting surrounding rock data; conducting deformation fitting on the point cloud data, calculating a fitting residual error, removing a noisy point, and conducting preprocessing; combining data of preprocessed point cloud, surrounding rock, and the tunnel excavation line to construct a tunnel excavation dynamic model; conducting stress analysis according to the model and determining whether to send out a safety early warning signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Hongming Luo, Jun Gao, Shanxiong Chen, Xiao Lin, Lingfa Jiang, Liyun Yang, Min Chen, Yu Tang, Dean Liu, Sheng Wang, Xuejun Peng, Wenguo Yang, Xiaobo Xie, Xingli Li, Dexing Wu, Xiaozhen Xiang
  • Patent number: 11634145
    Abstract: This technology relates to dynamically detecting, managing and mitigating driver fatigue in autonomous systems. For instance, interactions of a driver in a vehicle may be monitored to determine a distance or time when primary tasks associated with operation of the vehicle or secondary tasks issued by the vehicle computing were last performed. If primary tasks or secondary tasks are not performed within given distance thresholds or time limits, then one or more secondary tasks are initiated by the computing device of the vehicle. In another instance, potential driver fatigue, driver distraction or overreliance on an automated driving system is detected based on gaze direction or pattern of a driver. For example, a detected gaze direction or pattern may be compared to an expected gaze direction or pattern given the surrounding environment in a vicinity of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Keith Hutchings, Julien Mercay, Philip Nemec, Hans-olav CaveLie, Saswat Panigrahi, Renaud-Roland Hubert, Johan Engstrom
  • Patent number: 11631284
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a vehicle telematics system including telematics a telematics device, where the telematics device includes a modem that communicates using several communication modes, and the processor of the telematics device is directed to operate in the communication mode, transmit a notification to the cellular data server regarding a switch to a different communication mode, switch to the navigation mode and obtain location data for a first time, switch back to the communication mode, extrapolate a new location for a second time while in the communication mode based on an analysis of the location data received during the navigation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: CalAmp Corp.
    Inventors: Peter Hergesheimer, Steve Burrington
  • Patent number: 11626017
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for receiving a plurality of requests, from a plurality of user equipments (UEs), to exit a parking area comprising a plurality of vehicles, wherein each of the plurality of UEs is associated with a corresponding vehicle of the plurality of vehicles, determining an exit order for the plurality of vehicles to exit the parking area, and transmitting, to the plurality of UEs, a plurality of exit commands, based on the exit order, for the plurality of vehicles to exit the parking area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM incorporated
    Inventors: Dan Vassilovski, Gene Wesley Marsh, Deviprasad Putchala, Shailesh Patil