Patents Examined by Sisay Yacob
  • Patent number: 11878627
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for operating an assistance system of a motor vehicle, wherein the assistance system has a projector. A message relating to a wrong-way driver is received, and a position of the wrong-way driver transmitted with the message is compared with a current position. Depending on the comparison, a recommendation for adapting a driving parameter is projected into an area in front of the motor vehicle for the driver by means of the projector. The present disclosure also relates to an assistance system of a motor vehicle and to a motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Valentin Schmidt, Tilman Armbruster, Johannes Reschke, Faruk Krijestorac
  • Patent number: 11875662
    Abstract: A proximity detection device for a vehicle is shown and described. The proximity detection device for a vehicle includes a housing. The housing is made up of a solid exterior and an interior volume. The housing encloses at least one sensor which is operably coupled to a CPU. The CPU is then operably coupled to an alarm. The proximity detection device may be incorporated into a vehicle. Further, multiple proximity detection devices may be incorporated into a vehicle for any number of reasons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Inventor: Joseph Gaul
  • Patent number: 11869358
    Abstract: System and method for providing a warning to a motorist of the presence of a mobile target in an area, when at least one projected path of the motor vehicle intersects at least one projected target path. A sensor obtains an image of the area and passes the image to a data processing unit. The data processing unit comprises an image analysis module that is used to analyze the image to detect the presence of a target, such as a bicycle, in the area. The image analysis module uses artificial intelligence methods to analyze the image. When a mobile target is detected in the area, a signal is generated and passed to a display unit. The display unit then displays a visible warning of the presence of the target to the motorist. In one embodiment, the area includes a blind spot of a motor vehicle operated by the motorist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Nortak Software Ltd.
    Inventor: Norio Takemura
  • Patent number: 11869357
    Abstract: An apparatus including a garment having a front configured to substantially cover a person's torso, left and right shoulder regions configured to simultaneously substantially cover the person's left and right shoulders, respectively; a first wearable device attached to the front of the garment; and a second wearable device attached to at least one of the shoulder regions of the garment; and wherein each of the first wearable device and the second wearable device includes means for causing an audio alert to be emitted by an audio speaker located on the garment. The apparatus may be further comprised of a third wearable device which is attached to the left shoulder region of the garment; wherein the second wearable device is attached to the right shoulder region of the garment; and wherein the third wearable device includes means for causing an audio alert to be emitted by the audio speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventor: Pathfins C. Okezie
  • Patent number: 11854329
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that can include a doorbell device receiving a request signal to enter a region associated with the doorbell device from a remote control device and, responsive thereto, accessing a list identifying which of a plurality of authorized users are located within the region, identifying one of the plurality of authorized users associated with the remote control device, determining whether the list indicates that the one of the plurality of authorized users is located within the region, and determining whether to transmit a disarm command signal to a control panel device or an activation signal to an access control device based on whether the list indicates that the one of the plurality of authorized users is located within the region, wherein entries on the list can correspond to historical use of the doorbell device or the control panel device to enter and exit the region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: ADEMCO INC.
    Inventors: Travis Read, Andrew Covi
  • Patent number: 11842643
    Abstract: A communication control apparatus includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image captured by an image capturing unit installed in a movable object. The communication control apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect a risk area from the image. The communication control apparatus includes a calculation unit configured to calculate location information of the risk area. The communication control apparatus includes a transmission control unit configured to control transmission of risk area information including the location information. The communication control apparatus includes a reception control unit configured to control reception of a response to the risk area information. The communication control apparatus includes an output control unit configured to control output of notification information based on the response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Kurehashi, Shigeru Inoue
  • Patent number: 11835623
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a device and method for controlling vehicles and a radar system for vehicles. The vehicle controller may include a spectrum generator generating a 2D spectrum, a range-velocity map generator generating a range-velocity map corresponding to each height value included in a height set, a correlation coefficient determiner determining a correlation coefficient corresponding to each height value included in the height set, and a target determiner estimating a height of a target based on the correlation coefficient and recognizing the target based on the height of the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: HL KLEMOVE CORP.
    Inventors: Jingu Lee, Han Byul Lee, Jung Hwan Choi, Jae Hyun Han
  • Patent number: 11816985
    Abstract: There is described an electrical cabinet for a traffic signaling system. The electrical cabinet generally has a housing; an input encoder, the input encoder having input ports receiving input signals carrying states associated with input devices of the traffic signaling system, a serial encoding circuit serially encoding the states of the input signals into a headerless signal, the headerless signal beginning with a first time slot and ending with a last time slot temporally spaced apart from the first time slot, the time slots carrying the states of the input signals, and an output port; and a traffic light controller having a serial decoding circuit receiving the headerless signal and serially decoding the headerless signal to retrieve the states of the input signals carried by the time slots of the headerless signal, the traffic light controller controlling the traffic signaling system based on the retrieved states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: LOGISIG INC.
    Inventor: Serge Fournier
  • Patent number: 11816984
    Abstract: The present application at least describes an apparatus for managing traffic. The apparatus includes a display including a graphical user interface. The apparatus also includes a non-transitory memory including information for managing traffic and a processor operably coupled to the display and memory, and configured to execute an instruction of receiving, via the graphical user interface, a request from a buyer to purchase a right of way from an entity at a traffic location. Another instruction includes reviewing, via gps, a location or route of the buyer in relation to the traffic location. Yet another instruction includes reviewing, via gps, a location or route of the entity in relation to the traffic location. Yet even another instruction includes determining, based upon the reviewed locations of the buyer and the entity, whether to send the buyer request to the entity; and sending, based upon the determination, the request to the entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventor: Gopinath Rangan
  • Patent number: 11804086
    Abstract: A method and system allow management of access to a door using a beacon signal. A user access authority determination unit controls access of a user to a target door based beacon data from beacons installed near a door. The user carries a terminal that obtains the beacon data based on a proximity to the beacons. The method includes identifying the target door based on identification information of the beacons extracted from the beacon data. A type of user movement is determined. The type of user movement includes an entering movement that the user enters into an inner side from an outer side through the target door and an exiting movement that the user exits the inner side to the outer side through the target door. An access authentication process to be performed to unlock the target door is determined according to the determined type of user movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: SUPREMA INC.
    Inventors: Dong Mok Shin, Seong Bin Choi, Jae Won Lee
  • Patent number: 11804124
    Abstract: A wearable computing device may be used to track the efficacy of one or more cleaning actions performed. The device can include one or more sensors that detect and measure motion associated with a cleaning event. In different examples, the movement data generated by the device can be compared to reference movement data to determine if the individual has cleaned all the objects they were expected to clean and/or if the individual has cleaned a given object sufficiently well. As another example, the movement data generated by the device can be analyzed to distinguish cleaning and non-cleaning movement actions as well as to distinguish different types of cleaning actions during cleaning movement. The quality of each cleaning action can be evaluated. In any configuration, the device may perform an operation in response to determining that ineffective cleaning is being performed, causing corrected cleaning action to be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Albert Goldfain, Gregory Bryant Hayes, Emily Gaynor, Pedro Van Hoecke, Ilona Furman Weart, Joseph Wegner
  • Patent number: 11798420
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus for being mounted on a vehicle, comprises a controller. The controller is configured to: determine that a call for attention toward a risk of collision is being made to a driver of a crossing vehicle that is a vehicle whose path crosses that of an own vehicle; and perform a predetermined process for risk avoidance, in a case where the call for attention is being made in the crossing vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 11790782
    Abstract: To improve road safety, a method for warning about a hazardous situation in road traffic is specified, wherein the hazardous situation is identified by means of a vehicle guidance system and a warning system is to used to determine whether a road user is within an effective range in surroundings of a motor vehicle. Depending on the identified hazardous situation, the warning system is used to transmit a warning signal to the road user before an automatic reaction to the hazardous situation is initiated or prepared by means of the electronic vehicle guidance system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Matthias Klawitter, Onno Sundermann, Eduard Seib
  • Patent number: 11790774
    Abstract: A method comprises: generating a traffic sign message configured to configure an active traffic sign that is electronically configurable; encrypting the traffic sign message to produce an encrypted traffic sign message; sending the encrypted traffic sign message to a radio broadcast transmitter; and at the radio broadcast transmitter, transmitting the encrypted traffic sign message in a radio broadcast signal; and at the active traffic sign: receiving the radio broadcast signal and recovering the encrypted traffic sign message from the radio broadcast signal; decrypting the encrypted traffic sign message to produce the traffic sign message; and configuring the active traffic sign according to the traffic sign message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: IBIQUITY DIGITAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ashwini Pahuja, Armaan Pahuja, Catherine P. Gooi, Gabriel Olochwoszcz, Marek Milbar
  • Patent number: 11790784
    Abstract: The invention relates to a complex proximity safety and warning system. The invention provides a safety system comprising a generator that generates a magnetic field that establishes a boundary, where the generator is capable of receiving radio frequency signals. Also provided is a radio frequency device that sends radio frequency signals, the radio frequency device being capable of sensing the magnetic field and generating a radio frequency response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Strata Safety Products, LLC
    Inventors: Larry D. Frederick, Paul L. Hammond
  • Patent number: 11783702
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and processor-readable media for adaptive cycle-level traffic signal control are described. An adaptive cycle-level traffic signal controller and control method that operate within a continuous action space. A reinforcement learning algorithm called Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO), which is a type of actor-critic model for reinforcement learning, may be used to generate signal cycle phase durations selected from a continuous range of values. The controller thus does not treat the action space as discrete, but instead produces continuous values as output. The generated phase durations may define a full traffic signal cycle. The inputs to the controller may indicate current and past states of the traffic environment. The average duration of delay of vehicles in the traffic environment may be used to calculate the reward for the reinforcement learning model that drives the behavior of the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI CLOUD COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Soheil Mohamad Alizadeh Shabestary, Baher Abdulhai, Hao Hai Ma, Yi Huo
  • Patent number: 11783704
    Abstract: A configuration is provided so that information of detection of vehicles, pedestrians, etc. provided from a roadside device can be used by an automobile that cannot communicate with the roadside device. A warning device is configured to output a warning for an automobile traveling in a predetermined lane at an intersection where a roadside device is installed, the roadside device being configured to transmit information of detection of vehicles, pedestrians, etc., the warning device including a receiving unit configured to receive information of detection of vehicles, pedestrians, etc. transmitted from the roadside device and signal information of a signal lamp for the predetermined lane, and a warning unit configured to output a warning based on the information of detection of vehicles, pedestrians, etc. and the signal information received by the receiving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Koito Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshiki Sudo
  • Patent number: 11769406
    Abstract: An automobile includes a traffic information acquisition device that acquires traveling vehicle information, and traffic information from a traffic information management center that manages traffic obstacle information on an obstacle on a road, a display device that displays surroundings map information of a subject vehicle together with a mark showing a current position of the subject vehicle, and a control device. The control device reflects a decorative image based on surroundings traffic obstacle information in the surroundings map information and displays the decorative image on the display device, and associates, with the decorative image, an involved vehicle number image on an involved vehicle number, and displays the involved vehicle number image on the display device. The involved vehicle number is the number of vehicles in the traveling vehicle information involved in the traffic information related to the decorative image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayuki Hamada, Masakazu Aoki, Yohsuke Hashimoto, Yuki Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11763680
    Abstract: A straddled vehicle including a vehicle body frame having a head pipe extending downward and forward, a steering shaft supported by the head pipe to be rotatable left and right, a front fork connected to the steering shaft, a front fender supported by the front fork, a front cover of which a portion is arranged further forward than the head pipe, and a radar supported by the vehicle body frame and arranged further forward than the head pipe. The front cover includes a front end, and a lower edge extending leftward or rightward from the front end in a front view, at least a portion of the lower edge being located at or below the front end. At least a portion of the radar is arranged further downward than the front end of the front cover, further downward than the lower edge, and further upward than the front fender.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohito Maeda, Yuta Imafuku
  • Patent number: 11761257
    Abstract: A container for the storage of valuables and a service to retrieve the container is disclosed. The container is designed to contain valuables and important documents, and protect these contents during an emergency evacuation situation. The container is waterproof and can float in water. The container can also be made of a flame-resistant material. The container can emit a homing signal to facilitate the retrieval of the container in the event of an emergency situation. A container retrieval service can initiate a retrieval of the container in response to a determination that a disaster is likely to occur in the region where the container is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Emily Margaret Gray, Brian Francisco Shipley, Justin Dax Haslam, Robert Wiseman Simpson, Donnette L. Moncrief Brown, Eric David Schroeder, Michael J. Maciolek, Bobby Lawrence Mohs, Manfred Amann, Rochelle Ann Tijerina, Meredith Beveridge