Patents Examined by Sihar A Karwan
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Patent number: 11794724Abstract: A device detects a behavior of a straddle-type vehicle in a yaw direction and in a roll direction, determines whether a traveling state of the straddle-type vehicle is a first state or a second state closer to a straight traveling state than the first state, and estimates a turning radius of the straddle-type vehicle. In a case where it is determined that the traveling state is the first state, a turning radius is estimated by a first method based on a detection result of the behavior in the yaw direction. In a case where it is determined that the traveling state is the second state, the turning radius is estimated by a second method based on a detection result of the behavior in the roll direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kuroba, Kazuki Akami, Hiroshi Maeda
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Patent number: 11785201Abstract: A method of displaying a three-dimensional (“3D”) image, the method includes determining a shutter electrode of an unit part included in a shutter panel as a left-eye electrode and a right-eye electrode, the unit part including ‘n’ shutter electrodes (herein, n is a natural number), selectively driving the left-eye electrode and the right-eye electrode as an opening part based on an image displayed on a display panel to transmit light through the opening part, and providing light transmitted through the opening part with an observer's two eyes through a lens plate, the lens plate including a plurality of lenses.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Goro Hamagishi, Ryota Odake, Seung-Jun Yu, Sang-Min Jeon
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Patent number: 11778941Abstract: A system comprising an autonomous mobile device and a base station connected to a boundary wire is configured to transmit information from the base station to the autonomous mobile device. The base station is configured to generate a radio signal to be emitted by the boundary wire, wherein the autonomous mobile device is configured to autonomously drive within a working area based on the signal emitted by the boundary wire. The base station on the other hand is configured to encode data and/or commands into the radio signal which is then emitted by the boundary wire. The autonomous mobile device receive the emitted radio signal and is configured to decode the encoded data and/or commands in order to retrieve the original information.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2019Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE EUROPE GMBHInventors: Nils Einecke, Sven Rebhan
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Patent number: 11760366Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a first control unit and a second control unit each configured to perform travel control of a vehicle based on a recognition result of an external recognition device group configured to obtain external information of the vehicle and a detection result of a vehicle information detection unit configured to obtain state information of an actuator group of the vehicle. In a case in which functional degradation of at least one of the external recognition device group, the actuator group, and the vehicle information detection unit is detected, based on the recognition result and the detection result, the first control unit determines contents of vehicle control in fallback control for restricting a travel control function of the vehicle and determines whether to execute the fallback control by one of the first control unit and the second control unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Akihiko Aoyagi, Kanta Tsuji, Tadahiko Kanoh, Takuyuki Mukai, Jun Ochida, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Yuichi Komori, Takashi Kuboshima
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Patent number: 11761938Abstract: A sensor system includes an unmanned vehicle system is provided that includes a housing, and an environmental sensor system coupled to the housing, the environmental sensor system configured to detect one or more environmental conditions of an environment in operational contact with the unmanned vehicle system. The environmental sensor includes a sensing element that includes a sensing material to detect and quantify at least one analyte gas by measuring impedance of the sensing element at one or more frequencies of the different frequencies during exposure of the sensing material to the at least one analyte gas.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Radislav Alexandrovich Potyrailo, Douglas Forman, Steven Go
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Patent number: 11758246Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to filling video ad requests with video ad content that begins in a format incompatible with the mobile device that is requesting the ad content. In particular, it relates to accessing available on ad content, transcoding the ad content to a video stream and publishing the video stream to the mobile device that requested the head content. This sometimes requires synchronization between a player on the mobile device and the video stream transcoder.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Beachfront Media, LLCInventors: Todd Kuehnl, Frank Sinton
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Patent number: 11724742Abstract: A method for automatically parking a vehicle in a parking slot involves manually driving the vehicle into the parking slot in a training step, and thereafter automatically driving the vehicle into the parking slot in a replay step. Automatically driving the vehicle into the parking slot involves detecting information of features of the environment of the vehicle corresponding to the driven trajectory, matching feature descriptors of the detected features of the environment with feature descriptors stored in the digital map, and re-localizing the vehicle against the trajectory stored in the digital map in order to navigate the vehicle along the stored trajectory into the parking slot. Automatically driving the vehicle into the parking slot is repeated multiple times, and involves deleting a feature descriptor stored in the digital map if the number of matches does not exceed a threshold after a predefined number of repetitions.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2018Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Connaught Electronics Ltd.Inventors: German Feijoo, Bassam Abdallah, Catherine Enright, Margaret Toohey, Jonathan Horgan
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Patent number: 11723305Abstract: Providing objective analysis of performance results of power equipment devices are detailed throughout this disclosure. Image data of vegetation cut by a power equipment device can be captured and uploaded to a server for analysis. Data pertinent to the performance results, such as environment conditions, mechanical parameter settings, type of vegetation or turf, and so forth can be submitted with the image data in some disclosed aspects. Analysis results, optionally in conjunction with adjustment data for adjusting mechanical settings of the power equipment can be provided in response to the image data.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: MTD PRODUCTS INCInventor: John Coleman
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Patent number: 11703854Abstract: An electronic control unit provided in a vehicle is provided. The electronic control unit comprises a communication unit for receiving information on vehicle electronic devices from one or more vehicle electronic devices provided in the vehicle, and a processor for selecting the information on vehicle electronic devices from any one of the vehicle electronic devices in response to occurrence of an event and controlling the communication unit to first transmit the selected information to a server.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Minkyu Park, Junho Moon, Janghyung Cho, Jonghwan Cho
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Patent number: 11700211Abstract: A network management system may allocate different amounts of bandwidth to different types of data traffic. The traffic types may be distinguished by their source device address, and whether the source device is part of, or external to, a first network. Packets may also be marked by their sender with information to identify a traffic type, and the marking may be used to determine the packet's treatment. The allocations given to the various types of traffic may be dynamically modified with changing traffic demands and conditions.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Jorge Salinger, Saifur Rahman, John Bevilacqua
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Patent number: 11685052Abstract: A method for operating a vision guided robot arm system comprising a robot arm provided with an end effector at a distal end thereof, a display, an image sensor and a controller, the method comprising: receiving from the sensor image an initial image of an area comprising at least one object and displaying the initial image on the display; determining an object of interest amongst the at least one object and identifying the object of interest within the initial image; determining a potential action related to the object of interest and providing a user with an identification of the potential action; receiving a confirmation of the object of interest and the potential action from the user; and automatically moving the robot arm so as to position the end effector of the robot arm at a predefined position relative to the object of interest.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2019Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Kinova Inc.Inventors: Louis-Joseph Caron L'Ecuyer, Jean-Francois Forget, Jonathan Lussier, Sébastien Boisvert
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Patent number: 11685372Abstract: The invention obtains a processing unit and a processing method capable of improving a rider's safety. The invention also obtains a collision warning system that includes the processing unit. The invention further obtains a motorcycle that includes the collision warning system. A processing unit (20) includes: an acquisition section (21) that acquires environment information corresponding to output of an environment detector (11); a determination section (22) that determines presence or absence of a possibility of a collision on the basis of the environment information; and a control section (23) that makes a warning device (30) output a warning in the case where the determination section (22) determines that there is the possibility of the collision. During travel of the motorcycle, the acquisition section (21) acquires posture information related to a bank angle of the motorcycle, and the control section (23) changes the warning output by the warning device (30) in accordance with the posture information.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2018Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Lars Pfau, S N Prashanth
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Patent number: 11673780Abstract: A multi-function camera system, applied to a forklift truck, includes a camera device and a display device installed on the forklift truck, and an image processing unit coupled between the camera device and the display device, capable of shooting and displaying a corresponding real image in order to assist operations of the forklift truck. In addition, the camera device is equipped with a fill light module capable of providing multiple light colors, and the image processing unit includes an identification module capable of identifying the optical identification code. Accordingly, the camera system with multiple functions of monitoring, fill light, identification and positioning etc. is achieved.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2020Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: AUTOEQUIPS TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Ting-Peng Wang, I-Jen Lai
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Patent number: 11670160Abstract: A multi-function remote control contains: a new remote control and a network control system. The new remote control includes two control panels, and each of the two control panels including a first learning unit, a learning button, and multiple blank buttons. A first learning unit of a first control panel includes a radio frequency (RF) module, and the RF module includes a first emitter element and a first receiver element. A second learning unit of a second control panel includes an infrared (IR) module which includes a second emitter element configured to send first infrared signals, and the IR module includes a second receiver element configured to receive second infrared signals of another electrical remote control. Furthermore, the second receiver element is also configured to send the second infrared signals to the integration chip.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Inventor: Mu-Chen Tami
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Patent number: 11662729Abstract: A submersible inspection drone used for inspection of liquid cooled electrical transformers can include a number of separate cameras for imaging the internal structure of the transformer. The submersible can be configured to communicate to a base station using a wireless transmitter and receiver. The cameras on the submersible can be fixed in place and can be either static or motion picture cameras. The submersible can include an input/output selector capable of switching between the camera images, either through commanded action of a user or through computer based switching. In one form the input/output selector is a multiplexer. The base station can be configured to display images from the cameras one at a time, or can include a number of separate viewing portals in which real time images are displayed. The base station can include a demultiplexer synchronized to the multiplexer of the submersible.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2019Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: HITACHI ENERGY SWITZERLAND AGInventors: Gregory A. Cole, William J. Eakins, Daniel T. Lasko, Harshang Shah, Thomas A. Fuhlbrigge, Carlos W. Morato, Biao Zhang, Luiz Cheim, Poorvi Patel, Gregory F. Rossano, Andrew Salm
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Patent number: 11654962Abstract: A travel control method for a vehicle is provided, which includes autonomous steering control for autonomously controlling the steering of the vehicle. The travel control method includes: setting a plurality of cancellation thresholds corresponding to respective travel scenes, the cancellation thresholds being used for canceling the autonomous steering control and transitioning to the driver's manual operation; detecting a travel scene of the vehicle during execution of the autonomous steering control; extracting a cancellation threshold corresponding to the detected travel scene from among the plurality of set cancellation thresholds; and determining, based on the extracted cancellation threshold, whether or not to cancel the autonomous steering control and transition to the driver's manual operation.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2019Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shinya Saito
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Patent number: 11643095Abstract: An electronic control device includes a control command generation unit that generates and outputs a control command for controlling a first control object; a communication unit that performs communication with another electronic control device that controls a second control object; a communication abnormality determination unit that determines whether communication with the another electronic control device by the communication unit is abnormal; and a reset determination unit that determines whether the another electronic control device is reset based on a change in a sensor signal related to a state of the second control object when the communication abnormality determination unit determines that the communication with the another electronic control device is abnormal.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2017Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.Inventors: Shogo Nakao, Nobuki Sato, Mitsuo Sasaki
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Patent number: 11638055Abstract: Systems, devices and methods are described to process timed text that is associated with media or other video programming. Pre-set data that describes the particular format of the timed text that is associated with a program is initially received and stored at the media receiver prior to receiving the program with encoded timed text. The timed text that is associated with the received program is interpreted according to the pre-set data previously stored at the media receiver, and the program with the interpreted timed text is output to a display for presentation to the viewer.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: DISH Technologies L.LC.Inventor: Kate Landow
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Patent number: 11634118Abstract: A parking control method includes: performing parking control of moving a vehicle to a target parking position on the basis of an operation command acquired from an operator located outside the vehicle; when the parking control to the target parking position is suspended and the vehicle leaves the target parking position, calculating a moving direction of the vehicle on the basis of a parking direction when the vehicle is parked at a next target parking position; and moving the vehicle in the moving direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryota Yamanaka, Yasuhiro Suzuki, Yasuhisa Hayakawa
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Patent number: 11628829Abstract: While a vehicle is operated from a first area to a second area based on a stored route, one or more turning regions are identified along the stored route based on sensor data. Upon selecting one turning region, a route is determined from the second area to the first area via the selected turning region based on the stored route. Upon receiving a message from a handheld device, the vehicle is actuated to operate along the route and turn around in the selected turning region.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2020Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Mohamed Benmimoun, Sufian Ashraf Mazhari, Ahmed Benmimoun, Muhammad Adeel Awan