Patents Examined by Sang Kim
  • Patent number: 11964668
    Abstract: A travel control method for a vehicle for executing autonomous travel control includes, prior to executing the autonomous travel control, presenting a driver with travel control information as to whether or not to accept execution of the autonomous travel control and detecting, in response to a presentation of the travel control information, an acceptance input made by the driver indicating that the driver accepts the execution of the autonomous travel control. The travel control method also includes: setting an input form of a present acceptance input by the driver to an input form different from an input form of a previous acceptance input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Hayakawa, Takahiko Oki
  • Patent number: 11958495
    Abstract: A vehicle display control device, includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to cause a display unit provided in a vehicle cabin to display an inducement image requesting that an occupant grip a steering wheel in a case in which it is necessary for the occupant to grip the steering wheel, and cause the display unit to display the inducement image more prominently in a case of requesting that the occupant grip the steering wheel before the vehicle switches from an autonomous driving mode to a manual driving mode as the vehicle is continuing to drive autonomously, than in a case of requesting that the occupant continue to grip the steering wheel as the vehicle is continuing to drive autonomously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoaki Takabatake, Koji Kimura, Junji Miyazaki, Ryo Ogata, Yuki Yoshida, Tadashi Morishita
  • Patent number: 11958506
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a position of a vehicle, a driving controller configured to control one or both of acceleration/deceleration and steering of the vehicle and to cause the vehicle to travel in one of a plurality of driving modes in which tasks imposed on an occupant of the vehicle are different, and a mode determiner configured to determine a driving mode which is to be performed by the driving controller. The recognizer recognizes first road information including road marking objects near the vehicle with respect to a position of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result from an external sensor, recognizes second road information including road marking objects near the vehicle from map information on the basis of position information of the vehicle, and performs a process of recognizing the position of the vehicle through matching between the first road information and the second road information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Koichiro Wada, Yudai Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11945455
    Abstract: A control system for a vehicle may include a plurality of vehicle subsystems associated with respective different dynamic vehicle control functions and a plurality of subsystem controllers associated with respective ones of the vehicle subsystems. The subsystem controllers may be configured to control actuators associated with the respective different dynamic vehicle control functions to change an operational state of components of the vehicle subsystems based on respective configuration settings. The system further includes an attribute configuration module operably coupled to the subsystem controllers. The attribute configuration module may include processing circuitry configured to save current configuration settings as a saved configuration responsive to a first actuation of a configuration mode actuator and, after an on/off cycle of the vehicle, instruct the subsystem controllers to implement the saved configuration responsive to a second actuation of the configuration mode actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Craig Edward Esler, Ehab Aleid, Ahmed Awadi, Matheus Bianchi Dambros, Helmuth Bosch, Thomas Richard Wroblewski
  • Patent number: 11926315
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic apparatus for detecting risk factors around a vehicle. The present electronic apparatus comprises a communicator, a memory storing at least one computer-executable instruction, and a processor for executing the at least one computer-executable instruction, wherein the processor receives, through the communicator, an image obtained from a camera located to capture the outside of the vehicle, calculates a rollover index of an external vehicle on the basis of an image of the external vehicle included in the obtained image, and performs a preset operation according to the calculated rollover index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongwoo Park, Heejun Choi
  • Patent number: 11926334
    Abstract: Described is a system for human-machine teaching for vehicle operation. The system determines currently enabled status reporting modes on a vehicle interface of a vehicle. The currently enabled status reporting modes are compared to a set of preferred status reporting modes of previous users. Based on the comparison, a status reporting mode is selected. A current operational status of the vehicle is reported to a current user, via the vehicle interface, using the selected status reporting mode. The system then determines preferred solutions of previous users to address the current operational status of the vehicle. Suggestions to address the current operational status of the vehicle based on the preferred solutions are reported to the user via the vehicle interface. A vehicle action corresponding to a solution selected by the current user is implemented via a vehicle component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: HRL LABORATORIES, LLC
    Inventors: Tiffany Hwu, David J. Huber, Steven W. Skorheim, Jaehoon Choe
  • Patent number: 11919539
    Abstract: Among other things, techniques are described for screening and monitoring the health of a vehicle user including receiving sensor data produced by a sensor at the vehicle, processing the sensor data to determine at least one health condition of the user of the vehicle, and in response to determining the at least one health condition, executing a vehicle function selected from a plurality of vehicle functions based on the at least one health condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Motional AD LLC
    Inventors: Eric Wolff, Abhimanyu Singh, Linh Pham
  • Patent number: 11919536
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an evaluation method and system for steering comfort in a human machine cooperative take-over control process of an autonomous vehicle, and a storage medium, thereby avoiding a defect that most comfort evaluation methods are applicable only in laboratory conditions, and also solving a problem that most comfort evaluation methods do not consider non-traditional control characteristics of a driver in a take-over control process. The method of the present disclosure includes: acquiring vehicle data information in a current driving cycle, and preprocessing the vehicle data information to form preprocessed vehicle data information; and using the preprocessed vehicle data information as an input to a well-trained comfort model library, and performing log probability matching calculation on the basis of the comfort model library, to form a comfort recognition result corresponding to comfort.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Tsinghua University
    Inventors: Xuewu Ji, Yuan Chu
  • Patent number: 11912357
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for influential control over a driver's operation of a vehicle's steering wheel. Upon issuing an autonomous control signal to control motive operation of the vehicle, an autonomous control system of the vehicle may reinforce or influence the application of the autonomous control signal by inducing or cuing to induce the driver's hand(s) to turn the vehicle's steering wheel in a particular direction or by a particular amount/with a particular level of torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Manuel Ludwig Kuehner, Nicholas Charles Fishwick
  • Patent number: 11912291
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an autonomous vehicle and a system for the autonomous vehicle. The system may include: a power supply including a first power output and a second power output; a master computing unit arranged to be powered by the first power output, configured to control operations of the autonomous vehicle in response to detecting the second power output, and configured to provide a third power output by adjusting the first power output; and a slave computing unit arranged to be powered by the second power output, and configured to control the operations of the autonomous vehicle in response to detecting a failure of the master computing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lijun Ju, Chengfa Wang, Junping Wang, Fan Yang
  • Patent number: 11904896
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control device that can ensure riding comfort or safety. A vehicle control device includes a driving plan calculation unit that calculates a drivable area, which is a space in which an own vehicle is safely drivable, based on a driving environment around the own vehicle and a destination of the own vehicle; and a vehicle motion control unit that calculates a target track including a route and a velocity satisfying a predetermined riding comfort condition in the drivable area calculated by the driving plan calculation unit and controls the own vehicle so as to follow the target track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryoh Inaba, Toshiharu Sugawara, Hidehiro Toyoda
  • Patent number: 11904908
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a driving controller configured to control one or both of steering and acceleration or deceleration of a vehicle; and a mode determiner configured to determine a driving mode of the vehicle to be one of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode and a second driving mod, in which the second driving mode is a driving mode in which a task imposed on a driver of the vehicle is lighter than that of the first driving mode and one or both of the steering and the acceleration or deceleration are controlled by the driving controller, and to change the driving mode to the first driving mode on the basis of an operating state of a wiper mounted in the vehicle when the driving controller controls the vehicle in the second driving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuma Kobayashi, Yoshifumi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11891093
    Abstract: A control device that comprises a processor that executes instructions to cause a mobile object to travel autonomously is provided. The processor controls the mobile object based on a conditions-varying travel path so that an automated control of the mobile object does not change even if travel conditions of the conditions-varying travel path vary. The processor also executes instructions to determine a route to a destination. The processor determines the route using automated-driving map information that comprises a travel path other than the conditions-varying travel path when the mobile object travels by automated driving. The processor also determines the route using manual-driving map information that comprises the conditions-varying travel path when the mobile object travels by manual driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Etsuo Watanabe, Ryoichi Inoue, Yuki Motegi
  • Patent number: 11878588
    Abstract: A method and a device are disclosed for activating a function subject to authorization in a vehicle comprising a system of digital rear-view mirrors with at least first and second touch screens, arranged on the driver's and passenger's side, respectively. The vehicle comprises members suitable for providing at least one function subject to authorization. The method comprises detection, by one of the members, of an action by a person that requires the activation of a function subject to authorization; —transmission, from the member to the system of digital rear-view mirrors, of information relating to the detection; —receipt, from the system of digital rear-view mirrors, of the information relating to the detection originating from the member, —display, on one of the touch screens, of a notification comprising the function subject to authorization, and; an interaction zone suitable for receiving either an agreement or a refusal from the driver and/or the front passenger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: PSA AUTOMOBILES SA
    Inventors: Charles Moreau, Loic Bayard, Pierre Quinio, Eric Eledut, Maxime Savignac
  • Patent number: 11866035
    Abstract: A personalized safe driving assistance method and system includes personalized safe driving information by determining a dangerous situation differently according to personal preference. A method includes the operations of collecting, for each of a plurality of collection target vehicles, information on a first risk determination factor to an N-th risk determination factor corresponding to the collection target vehicle during a predetermined measurement period, by a personalized safe driving assistance system (here, N is an integer greater than or equal to 3), modeling a standard safety area in an N-dimensional space expressed in an N-axis coordinate system orthogonal to each other on the basis of the information collected from the plurality of collection target vehicles during the measurement period, wherein each coordinate axis of the N-dimensional space corresponds to any one among the first risk determination factor to the N-th risk determination factor, by the personalized safe driving assistance system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: INFOCAR CO., LTD
    Inventors: Geo Seok Choi, Moon Kyu Choi, Geon Ho Pyo, Guk Bin Lim
  • Patent number: 11866094
    Abstract: A working vehicle includes a steering handle, a vehicle body to travel by manual steering via the steering handle or automatic steering for the steering handle based on a scheduled traveling line, a setting switch to switch between valid and invalid, a setting mode to set at least the automatic steering before the automatic steering is started, and a display including a driving display portion to display driving information of the vehicle body during traveling. When the setting mode is switched to be valid, the display changes a displaying state of the driving display portion to another different displaying state different from the displaying state where the setting mode is invalid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Misako Kawai, Kumiko Kobayashi, Yasuaki Morioka, Kunihiko Nishino, Shunsuke Miyashita, Shunsuke Edo, Manabu Togo
  • Patent number: 11858494
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for processing vehicle driving mode switching, a vehicle and a server. The method includes: determining (S103) a target switching reason upon detecting that a driving mode of a vehicle is switched from unmanned driving to manned driving; acquiring (S104) status information and/or traveling environment information of the vehicle corresponding to the target switching reason; and sending the status information and/or the traveling environment information, and the target switching reason to a server, to enable the server to analyze the target switching reason, and improve the automatic driving system continuously according to the analysis result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gao Yu, Jingjing Xue, Gaifan Li, Donghui Shen, Tong Wu, Jiaqi Liang
  • Patent number: 11840249
    Abstract: A method for supporting a driver of a motor vehicle in a manual parking procedure of the motor vehicle in a surroundings of the motor vehicle, is disclosed. At least one indicator characterizing the parking procedure is acquired and, depending on an evaluation of the indicator, a performance of a parking procedure is recognized and, depending thereon, at least one parking-procedure-specific function of the motor vehicle is activated to support the driver during the parking procedure, wherein a performance of the parking procedure is recognized when at least a first indicator that characterizes the parking procedure in a surroundings-specific manner is acquired and if, after the acquisition of the first indicator, at least one second indicator that characterizes the parking procedure in a motor-vehicle-specific manner is acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN GMBH
    Inventors: Uwe Mischke, Fabian Thunert
  • Patent number: 11820428
    Abstract: The autonomous LC control is started in response to receiving a start instruction of autonomous lane change. When the driver performs a steering intervention in a same direction as a direction of steering requested by the autonomous LC control, and establishment of a stop condition of lane change is not recognized, during execution of the autonomous LC control, the autonomous driving control is continued. When the steering intervention in the same direction is performed, and establishment of the stop condition is recognized, during execution of the autonomous LC control, termination of the autonomous driving control is announced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenichiro Aoki
  • Patent number: 11807297
    Abstract: The autonomous LC control is started in response to receiving a start instruction of autonomous lane change. When the driver performs a steering intervention in a same direction as a direction of steering requested by the autonomous LC control, and establishment of a stop condition of lane change is not recognized, during execution of the autonomous LC control, the autonomous driving control is continued. When the steering intervention in the same direction is performed, and establishment of the stop condition is recognized, during execution of the autonomous LC control, termination of the autonomous driving control is announced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenichiro Aoki