Internal Alarm Or Indicator Responsive To A Condition Of The Vehicle Patents (Class 340/438)
  • Patent number: 11945386
    Abstract: A pneumatic identification apparatus for the body weight of a seat occupant includes a control unit and at least one sensing apparatus each including a pneumatic sensing apparatus and an auxiliary sensing apparatus; the pneumatic sensing apparatus includes at least one soft elastic hollow structure body and a sensing unit; the soft elastic hollow structure body communicates with a first air pressure sensor, the first air pressure sensor being configured to measure a first air pressure value Pa in the soft elastic hollow structure body; the control unit is configured to compare the first air pressure value Pa with standard set values and correspondingly output a body weight type; and the auxiliary sensing apparatus includes a top pressure-bearing plate and a bottom carrying plate respectively mounted on two end faces of the soft elastic hollow structure body. Further provided is a pneumatic identification seat provided with the pneumatic identification apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: LANGFANG GOLDEN TIME TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Haitao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11945460
    Abstract: Systems and methods communicate an intent of an autonomous vehicle externally. In one implementation, scan data of a field around a travel path of an autonomous vehicle is obtained. The scan data is captured using at least one sensor. An object in the field around the travel path is determined from the scan data. The object is determined to be mutable or immutable. A navigation condition associated with the object is determined based on whether the object is mutable or immutable. The navigation condition is correlated to a portion of the travel path. Control operation(s) of the autonomous vehicle is determined for the portion of the travel path in response to the navigation condition. A representation link between the control operation(s) of the autonomous vehicle and the object is generated. A representation of the field around the travel path is rendered and includes the representation link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Inventors: Chip J. Alexander, Miao Sun
  • Patent number: 11933020
    Abstract: A storage part of a construction machine stores an operation target which is set as a target of an operation of the construction machine for moving a specific portion of the construction machine to a target position set as a destination to which the specific portion moves. A calculation part calculates an index value which serves as an index indicating a deviation between the operation target and an actual state of the construction machine. A control device is configured to cause a vibration applying device to perform a first vibration applying operation when the index value satisfies a predetermined first condition, and to cause the vibration applying device to perform a second vibration applying operation when the index value satisfies a predetermined second condition different from the first condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyokazu Tanaka, Reona Takamura
  • Patent number: 11922813
    Abstract: An alert control apparatus includes: an alert control unit to issue a first alert to an occupant in a moving body if an object in a particular category is present within a region to which the moving body is headed, and issue a second alert to the occupant if an object in a category other than the particular category is present within the region; a reception control unit to perform, when the moving body enters a new movement section on a movement route, control for receiving a category of an object present within the new movement section from an external apparatus. If there is an object for which an alert is to be issued during movement within the new section, the alert control unit, based on the category received from the external apparatus, controls as to which of the first and second alerts is to be issued.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta Sakagawa, Shigeru Inoue, Takahiro Kurehashi, Moriya Horiuchi
  • 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: 11915340
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method, a computer program with instructions, and a device for generating a display of an augmented reality head-up display for a motor vehicle. In a first step, a position of the motor vehicle is determined. A plurality of virtual elements for a navigation hint is then provided on the basis of the position of the motor vehicle. The virtual elements, as seen from the motor vehicle, extend on both sides in a lateral direction to outside a field of view of the augmented reality head-up display. Finally, at least that virtual element which has the shortest distance to a center of the field of view is rendered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Vitalij Sadovitch, Ulrich Wuttke, Nina Jellentrup
  • Patent number: 11904758
    Abstract: A variable beam pattern lamp system for a driver provides an input device that receives personal information of the driver, a lamp driving device that drives an indoor or outdoor lamp of a vehicle to output a beam pattern matched to the driver, based on the personal information of the driver, the personal information being input through the input device, and a vehicle controller that determines whether the personal information is registered driver information or unregistered driver information, when the personal information of the driver is input through the input device, and controls the lamp driving device to drive the indoor or outdoor lamp of the vehicle using beam patterns respectively corresponding to that the personal information is the registered driver information and that the personal information is the unregistered driver information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seong Yeon Han
  • Patent number: 11904883
    Abstract: A method and system for controlling driver communication includes monitoring, via a plurality of on-vehicle subsystems, a vehicle state, an external environment state, and an in-cabin state via the plurality of on-vehicle subsystems; determining a driver workload score based upon the external environment state, the in-cabin state, and the vehicle state; receiving an incoming message; ranking the incoming message; determining a notification action for the incoming message based upon the driver workload score and the rank of the incoming message; and executing the notification action for the incoming message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Dustin H. M. Smith, Vivek Vijaya Kumar, Mohammad Naserian
  • Patent number: 11851013
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating an electrically drivable motor vehicle. A triggering signal for a pyrotechnic separating element is determined and output with application of a triggering criterion to a received respective electrical signal and/or at least three detected measured values by a microcontroller. A detection unit, two interfaces, and the separating element are electrically coupled to one another centrally via the microcontroller. Depending on the received triggering signal, at least one electrical connecting element is disconnected by the separating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Sebastian Kaindl, Peter Schiller
  • Patent number: 11820385
    Abstract: A driver monitoring system configured to monitor the performance of a driver of a vehicle communicating wirelessly with the driver monitoring system. The system comprises a driver behavior module that receives from the vehicle event data captured by a plurality of sensors in the vehicle and identifies at least one of a plurality of driver behaviors. A behavior characterization module receives from the driver behavior module the at least one identified driver behavior and characterizes the at least one identified driver behavior into at least one of a plurality of behavior categories. A risk assessment module analyzes the at least one characterized driver behavior in the plurality of behavior categories and determines therefrom a driver profile that may include a risk assessment for the driver of the vehicle system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Andrew P. Rose, Donald K. Grimm, Fan Bai
  • Patent number: 11807239
    Abstract: Technologies and techniques for automatically preparing and/or executing a possible lane change with an ego vehicle traveling in moving traffic from a first lane to a second lane of a multi-lane roadway by means of a driver assistance system and to a driver assistance system. Gaps are detected between two vehicles, and the relative positions and movements of the gaps relative to the ego vehicle will facilitate a potential lane change of the ego vehicle. The driver assistance system adjusts the following distance and/or following speed of the ego vehicle relative to the vehicle ahead in such a way that changing a lane and merging into a gap of an adjacent lane is possible by means of a transverse guidance of the ego vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Eigel, Felix Kallmeyer
  • Patent number: 11793434
    Abstract: A system for interfacing a motor vehicle with a person residing in the motor vehicle incudes a monitor that determines the mental state of the person, a module that receives information from the monitor to provide an addition channel to interface between the motor vehicle and the person, and a module that receives information from the monitor to adapt the motor vehicle according to the mental state of the person to enable the system to execute operations based on the mental state of the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jingyan Wan, Ke Liu, Omer Tsimhoni
  • Patent number: 11772454
    Abstract: A device configured for controlling a vehicle includes a navigation for receiving a Global Navigation Satellite system (GNSS) signal to determine at least one location of the vehicle, storage for storing a map including a plurality of road links, and a controller that determines whether the vehicle has entered a parking lot based on a result of determining whether a first location of the vehicle is connected to the road link based on the map and a result of determining whether a road link connected to a second location of the vehicle immediately before the first location among the plurality of links is connected to a parking lot entry/exit point, and controls an air conditioner in an internal air mode when it is determined that the vehicle has entered the parking lot, providing a pleasant environment to a driver and a passenger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Dae Kun Lee
  • Patent number: 11752716
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are automated systems and methods utilizing a plurality of specialized RFID tags incorporated within various tire manufacturing components (e.g., mold segments, mold container, bladder plates, tire presses, and extrusion dies) that are able to readily track tire manufacture and identify defect source(s) while concurrently being configured to the harsh processes and temperatures of tire manufacture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: FineLine Technologies
    Inventors: Jos Uijlenbroek, Jan Svoboda
  • Patent number: 11713849
    Abstract: A method monitors a pressure tank system of a stationary vehicle. The method detects a wake-up situation by use of sensor data of a main sensor of the vehicle. Furthermore, in reaction to the detection of a wake-up situation, the method activates a further resource for detecting and/or for evaluating sensor data with regard to the pressure tank system. Moreover, the method determines, by use of the further resource, whether one or more protective measures are to be carried out in relation to the pressure tank system and/or the surroundings thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Young-Jae Cho, Jan-Mark Kunberger, Georg Movsisyan, Andreas Pelger
  • Patent number: 11685197
    Abstract: A tire wear estimator includes a tire measurement system adapted to be mounted in or on an inner surface of the tire. The tire measurement system comprises a sensor adapted for sensing a physical property of the tire, and an acquisition system adapted for sampling a signal of the sensor into memory, to acquire a perturbation in the sampled data induced by a contact patch of the tire when the sensor is mounted in or on an inner surface of the tire. A sample rate of the acquisition system is high enough so at least one oscillation, which indicates a tread depth of the tire, becomes detectable in the sampled data in and/or around the perturbation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES SA
    Inventors: Julien Canioncq, Ivan Zagan
  • Patent number: 11656070
    Abstract: Systems for detection of tire strain in a vehicle are disclosed. In some implementations, the system may include an antennae disposed on one or more of the vehicle or a vehicle component and may output an electromagnetic ping. The system may include a tire with a body formed of one or more tire plies. Any one or more of the tire plies may include split-ring resonators (SRRs). Each SRR may have a natural resonance frequency that may proportionately shift in response to a change in an elastomeric property of a respective one or more tire plies, the elastomeric property including one or more of a reversible deformation, stress, or strain. The SRRs may include split-ring resonator (SRR) with carbon particles that may uniquely resonate in response to an electromagnetic ping based at least in part on a concentration level of the carbon particles within the SRR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Lyten, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael W. Stowell, Carlos Montalvo
  • Patent number: 11635503
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sonar device (1) for detection of underwater objects. The sonar device comprises a body element (2) having a cavity. A piezo electric element (3) is comprised within the cavity. A resin filling (6) of the cavity protects the piezo electric element (3) from water at underwater operation. The sonar device further comprises a holder (4) adapted to hold the piezo electric element (3). The holder (4) is arranged to centre and hold the piezo electric element (3) within said body element (2). The holder (4) comprises in its structure a plurality of damping structures (5). A method of manufacturing holder and a sonar device is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: SAAB AB
    Inventor: Oskar Viklund
  • Patent number: 11623638
    Abstract: The technology relates to articulated autonomous vehicles that can potentially jackknife. To avoid or mitigate such hazardous conditions, the current state of the vehicle is evaluated against the vehicle's planned trajectory, for instance as it drives along a freeway or surface streets. When the evaluation indicates a likelihood of jackknifing, an automated braking approach is implemented using elective braking to stabilize the vehicle. The braking approach can depend on whether the situation involves tractor jackknifing or trailer jackknifing, and one or more different braking mechanisms can be employed for a selective modulation of the braking profile to address actual jackknifing or to prevent the vehicle from entering a jackknifing situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventor: David Smith
  • Patent number: 11608075
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a data set including a requested acceleration as information representing movement of a vehicle in a front-rear direction and any one of a steering angle, a yaw rate, and a rotation radius as information representing movement of the vehicle in a lateral direction from each of a plurality of applications, an arbitration unit configured to perform arbitration of information representing the movement of the vehicle in the front-rear direction and arbitration of information representing the movement of the vehicle in the lateral direction based on a plurality of the data sets received by the receiver, and a first output unit configured to output instruction information for driving an actuator based on an arbitration result of the arbitration unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ikuma Suzuki, Wataru Kanda, Kaiji Itabashi, Yoshihisa Yamada, Kazuki Miyake, Tamotsu Kondoh
  • Patent number: 11608031
    Abstract: A security system is provided for a vehicle having an on-board diagnostic (“OBD”) data link cable and an OBD port. The system includes, a glass break sensor, and an input connector having a power input configured to be coupled to a vehicle battery voltage input of the OBD data link cable and to provide power to the glass break sensor. The glass break sensor is configured to detect a vibration, air pressure, or audio frequency disturbance and to generate an alarm signal when a disturbance is detected. The microprocessor is configured: to use OBD data to monitor whether the vehicle engine is running; to automatically arm the glass break sensor device when the vehicle engine is turned off; to automatically disarm the glass break sensor device when the vehicle engine is on; and to activate an alarm or a camera when in response to the alarm signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: INNOVATIVE AFTERMARKET GROUP
    Inventor: Carl Anthony Avila
  • Patent number: 11584353
    Abstract: A control method for a hybrid vehicle includes a generator and an electric motor, the generator being configured to charge a battery by use of power of an engine, the electric motor being configured to drive driving wheels by electric power of the battery. The control method having driving the engine at a first rotation speed when a charging amount of the battery decreases to a first charging threshold; changing the engine to driving at a second rotation speed larger than the first rotation speed when the engine is driven at the first rotation speed and the charging amount decreases to a second charging threshold smaller than the first charging threshold; and continuing driving of the engine until the charging amount becomes equal to or more than a charging end threshold larger than the first charging threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Higuchi, Tomohiro Ariyoshi, Satomi Eto, Kazuma Sengoku, Junji Miyachi, Tetsuya Shinohara
  • Patent number: 11580859
    Abstract: Systems and methods for vehicle lane change control are described. Some implementations may include determining a kinematic state of a vehicle moving in an origin lane; detecting, based on data from one or more sensors of the vehicle, objects that are moving in a target lane of the road; determining a headway constraint in terms of a preparation time, a preparation acceleration to be applied to the vehicle during the preparation time, and an execution time during which the vehicle is to transition from the origin lane to the target lane; determining values of the preparation time, the execution time, and the preparation acceleration subject to a set of constraints including the headway constraint; and determining a motion plan that will transition the vehicle from the origin lane to the target lane based at least in part on the preparation time, the execution time, and the preparation acceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Sandip Aine, Moritz Niendorf
  • Patent number: 11573473
    Abstract: An electrochromic device is provided in which resistance of a bus bar is reduced. This devices includes: a pair of base members; a pair of electrodes arranged between the pair of base members; an electrochromic layer arranged between the pair of electrodes; and at least one bus bar electrically connected to one of the pair of electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Wataru Kubo
  • Patent number: 11568746
    Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicular environment estimation device capable of accurately estimating a travel environment around own vehicle on the basis of a predicted route of a mobile object or the like, which is moving in a blind area. A vehicular environment estimation device that is mounted in the own vehicle detects a behavior of another vehicle in the vicinity of the own vehicle, and estimates a travel environment, which affects the traveling of another vehicle, on the basis of the behavior of another vehicle. For example, the presence of another vehicle, which is traveling in a blind area, is estimated on the basis of the behavior of another vehicle. Therefore, it is possible to estimate a vehicle travel environment that cannot be recognized by the own vehicle but can be recognized by another vehicle in the vicinity of the own vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Sakai, Hiromitsu Urano, Toshiki Kindo
  • Patent number: 11565635
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes an actuation unit that actuates an anomaly control switch that acknowledges execution of safety control, which improves safety during driving of a vehicle, upon detection of an occupant in an anomalous state from a monitoring result of a state of the occupant of the vehicle. The actuation unit causes the anomaly control switch to be actuated to allow the occupant to recognize a control content of the safety control. The vehicle control device further includes an operation acknowledgement unit that acknowledges operation of the anomaly control switch and a controller that executes the safety control when the operation acknowledgement unit acknowledges the operation of the anomaly control switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Masanori Kosugi, Tetsuya Egawa, Takashi Nagao
  • Patent number: 11529956
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling driving in a vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes one or more input devices configured to receive an input from a driver of the vehicle and a control circuit electrically connected with the one or more input devices. The control circuit is configured to activate a lane change when a first input for the lane change is received via the one or more input devices, initiate a lateral movement for the lane change when a second input for the lane change is received via the one or more input devices within a first time interval after the first input, and cancel the lane change when the second input is not received within the first time interval after the first input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Beom Jun Kim, Hoi Won Kim, Jae Yong Jeon, Dong Eon Oh, Dae Young Kim, Chan Il Park, Jin Su Jeong, Doo Jin Um
  • Patent number: 11520460
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method onboard a host vehicle for identifying, tagging and reporting hazardous drivers in adjacent vehicles in the vicinity of the host vehicle and displaying a message on a display of the tagged adjacent vehicle visible outside the tagged vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Matthew T. Flachsbart, Ameer A. Noorani, Bradly Jay Billman, Snehal Desai, Cory Matheson, James Phillip Hillman, Andrew L. Anaruk
  • Patent number: 11511626
    Abstract: Provided is an information display device for a vehicle having a display control section acquiring information of the vehicle and a display section displaying an image selected by the display control section. The vehicle includes a shift lever that can select at least a parking range and a driving range, and an in displayed on the display section includes either a first vehicle image or a second vehicle that are images of the vehicle viewed from mutually different directions. On the display section, the display control section displays the first vehicle image when the shift lever selects the parking range and the second vehicle image when the shift lever selects at least the driving range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazufumi Kuroda, Hiroyuki Kurokawa, Kotaro Higuchi, Masaru Aoki, Eiichi Hoshino, Keisuke Kato
  • Patent number: 11498562
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling driving in a vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes one or more input devices configured to receive an input from a driver of the vehicle and a control circuit electrically connected with the one or more input devices. The control circuit is configured to activate a lane change when a first input for the lane change is received via the one or more input devices, initiate a lateral movement for the lane change when a second input for the lane change is received via the one or more input devices within a first time interval after the first input, and cancel the lane change when the second input is not received within the first time interval after the first input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Beom Jun Kim, Hoi Won Kim, Jae Yong Jeon, Dong Eon Oh, Dae Young Kim, Chan Il Park, Jin Su Jeong, Doo Jin Um
  • Patent number: 11480116
    Abstract: Embodiments of methods and systems related to operating a mobile asset are provided. In one example, a method for operating a mobile asset includes supplying an engine with a fuel controller a first amount of a first fuel and a second amount of a second fuel and combusting the first fuel and the second fuel at a fuel combustion ratio in at least one cylinder of the engine, the first amount and the second amount being selected based on route information for a route along which the mobile asset is operable to travel and a projected exhaustion of the first fuel that does not precede a projected exhaustion of the second fuel, wherein the mobile asset is unable to operate with the second fuel alone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Shawn Gallagher, Daniel George Norton
  • Patent number: 11472521
    Abstract: A control system for boats includes a direction control system of a propulsion unit having a directional control member, and an acceleration/deceleration control system of the propulsion unit having an acceleration/deceleration control member. The directional control member activates a directional unit that generates directional control signals, which set an orientation of the propulsion unit, and the acceleration/deceleration control member activates an acceleration/deceleration unit that generates acceleration/deceleration control signals, which set at least a number of revolutions of the propulsion unit. The control system further includes a display unit provided with a screen, and a camera having a control system that provides images of areas or zones that cannot be observed by an operator of the control system while steering the boat, so as to enable driving the acceleration/deceleration unit and/or the directional unit according to a content of those images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Inventors: Piero Gai, Marcella Gai, Marco Vaccari
  • Patent number: 11475620
    Abstract: An information providing apparatus according to an aspect includes an acquirer configured to acquire traveling history of a vehicle, and an information provider configured to provide information on an anthropomorphic character correlated with information related to the vehicle. The information provider gives or grows the anthropomorphic character on the basis of the traveling history acquired by the acquirer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shigeru Namiki
  • Patent number: 11474495
    Abstract: In the technical field of industrial automation, a fault diagnosis method and apparatus for a numerical control machine tool are disclosed which can improve the efficiency of diagnosing faults of numerical control machine tools by utilizing feedback information provided by users. In a fault diagnosis method of an embodiment, the fault diagnosis apparatus receives a fault symptom to be diagnosed from a user terminal, diagnoses the fault for the fault symptom to be diagnosed, returns a fault diagnosis result to the user terminal, receives feedback on the fault diagnosis result from the user terminal, and adjusts the diagnosis policy for the fault symptom to be diagnosed according to the fault diagnosis result if the feedback of the user on the fault diagnosis result indicates that the fault has been cleared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Qi Sun, Armin Roux, Yunhua Fu, Shun Jie Fan
  • Patent number: 11455848
    Abstract: A system and method preserves raw vibration data for a physical event involving a transport vehicle such as a helicopter, plane, boat, car, or truck. The event may involve unexpected mechanical stresses on the vehicle. The system and method preserves raw vibration data for parts of the transport vehicle, such as from multiple points along the drive train. The preserved raw vibration data includes data from time prior to the physical event. In an embodiment, the system and method continuously detects vibration data, and stores the most recent vibration data in a circular memory buffer. The buffer is continually updated with the most current vibration data. When an event is automatically detected or manually triggered, the most recently saved vibration data is transferred from the buffer to permanent storage, along with vibration data obtained subsequent to the event. This allows for a more thorough post-event analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LIMITED
    Inventors: Paul Dunning, Steven Bonnett, Timothy North, Daniel Lee
  • Patent number: 11443567
    Abstract: A method performed by a first computing system includes receiving, from a second computing system, a message identifying a symptom of a first vehicle; and sending a repair tip to the second computing system. The repair tip includes a first phrase describing a first procedure performed on a second vehicle that exhibited the symptom, wherein the first procedure performed on the second vehicle yielded a result insufficient to determine that a component of the second vehicle associated with the symptom is defective. The repair tip also includes a second phrase describing a second procedure performed on a given vehicle, wherein the given vehicle is either (i) the second vehicle or (ii) a third vehicle that also exhibited the symptom, wherein the second procedure performed on the given vehicle yielded a result sufficient to determine that a component of the given vehicle associated with the symptom is defective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Snap-on Incorporated
    Inventors: Patrick S. Merg, Jacob G. Foreman
  • Patent number: 11435862
    Abstract: A touch operation is performed on a touch panel on which a knob for input operation can be placed, using the knob or another operation object. A touch detection unit detects the touch operation in a first detection method and a second detection method which are different from each other. Based on the result of detection in the first detection method, a knob touch point determining unit identifies the position where the touch operation has been performed by the knob, and outputs the touch information. A knob-finger contact determining unit determines whether a finger is in contact with the knob based on the touch information and the result of detection in the second detection method. It is possible to perform, without fail, the determination as to whether a knob or another object is in contact with the touch panel, and whether a finger is in contact with the knob which is in contact with the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Sasaki, Yuki Furumoto, Kimika Ikegami
  • Patent number: 11427222
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an in-vehicle activity information acquisition unit, a traveling road information acquisition unit, and a traveling route deriving unit. The in-vehicle activity information acquisition unit is configured to acquire in-vehicle activity information indicating content of an activity to be performed by an occupant in the vehicle while the occupant is traveling on the vehicle. The traveling road information acquisition unit is configured to acquire traveling road information indicating a state of a traveling road relating to a magnitude of an acceleration to be applied to the vehicle. The traveling route deriving unit is configured to derive a traveling route of the vehicle, on a basis of the in-vehicle activity information and the traveling road information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shota Inudo, Shunsuke Fukutomi, Yukihiko Murakami, Yoshiyuki Kambe, Megumi Fushimi, Kinya Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11429881
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for providing personalized groups of travel data for review through a user interface. Embodiments include receiving trip records associated with a user from an application running on a remote device, providing the trip records to a prediction model, and receiving a plurality of groups from the prediction model, each group of the plurality of groups comprising a subset of the trip records. Embodiments include providing each group of the plurality of groups to a personalization model, the personalization model having been trained based on user feedback to determine personalization scores for each group of the plurality of groups. Embodiments include receiving a personalization score for each group of the plurality of groups from the personalization model and transmitting one or more groups selected based on the personalization scores to the application to be displayed via the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: INTUIT, INC.
    Inventors: Grace Wu, Shashank Shashikant Rao, Susrutha Gongalla, Ngoc Nhung Ho
  • Patent number: 11417352
    Abstract: Disclosed in the invention are an in-vehicle intelligent WiFi microphone and an audio delay processing method therefor, by which the problem that the existing in-vehicle microphone is prone to interference and provides poor sound quality when FM signals are used to establish audio transmission with an in-vehicle entertainment system, can be solved. The in-vehicle intelligent WiFi microphone comprises a first microphone, a first main control circuit board, a first rechargeable battery and a first main mounting housing. The first microphone, the first main control circuit board and the first rechargeable battery are arranged in the first main mounting housing. The first microphone is located at an upper end of the first main mounting housing, and the first microphone and the first rechargeable battery are electrically connected to the first main control circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Inventor: Tiger Zhang
  • Patent number: 11417123
    Abstract: A driving state monitoring device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires line-of-sight information indicating a line-of-sight of a driver and driving state information indicating a state of driving by the driver; a calculation unit that calculates a line-of-sight range of the driver in a predetermined driving state based on the line-of-sight information and the driving state information; and a determination unit that determines an insufficient visual observation range based on a recommended line-of-sight range and the line-of-sight range of the driver, the insufficient visual observation range being a range in which visual observation by the driver is insufficient, the recommended line-of-sight range being a line-of-sight range recommended for the predetermined driving state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuki Inagaki
  • Patent number: 11403948
    Abstract: A warning device of a vehicle and a warning method thereof are provided. Determine an attribute and behavior of a target object based on sensing data of a sensor. Provide a first warning signal according to the attribute and the behavior of the target object. Provide a second warning signal based on dynamic information of the vehicle, the attributes and the behavior of the target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: COMPAL ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventor: Po-Kai Tseng
  • Patent number: 11402844
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus of an embodiment includes a recognizer which recognizes a surrounding environment of a host vehicle, and a driving controller which controls one or both of a speed and steering of the host vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer to perform driving control, wherein the driving controller performs the driving control in at least any of a first driving state and a second driving state having a higher rate of automation or fewer tasks requested for an occupant of the host vehicle than the first driving state, and an operation environment in which route change of the host vehicle in the second driving state is executed is limited as compared to a case of the first driving state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chihiro Oguro, Katsuya Yashiro, Ayumu Horiba, Tadahiko Kanoh, Yuta Takada
  • Patent number: 11393066
    Abstract: A display system (100) includes a rendering image generation unit (120), a parameter computation unit (140), and a warp processing unit (130). The parameter computation unit (140) computes a latency compensation parameter for compensating a latency including a rendering processing latency of a rendering image based on tracking information. The warp processing unit (130) performs latency compensation processing for compensating the position of a virtual object in a display region based on the latency compensation parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Inventors: Jeffrey Eric, Tetsuo Kawamoto, Wittmeir Manfred, Yosuke Tanikawa, Kumar anandabairavasamy Anand
  • Patent number: 11383713
    Abstract: An assist apparatus includes a second detection section, a first calculation section, and a notification section. The second detection section detects, as a region candidate which is a candidate for a region to which the own vehicle makes a lane change, one of one or more inter-vehicle regions sandwiched between two approaching vehicles one of which is located ahead of the other. The first calculation section calculates an acceptable distance, a vehicle A being one of the two approaching vehicles and having a relatively small relative distance to the own vehicle and a vehicle B being the other of the two approaching vehicles and having a relatively large relative distance to the own vehicle. The notification section notifies each approaching vehicle of a lane change intention, when the relative distance between the own vehicle and the vehicle A is less than the acceptable distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shotaro Fukuda, Koji Fujiki
  • Patent number: 11378413
    Abstract: An augmented navigational system is provided for autonomous vehicles. The augmented navigational system may further be coupled to an artificial intelligence system that provides object recognition and image recognition. A machine learning system may provide further feedback as to whether the pickup and drop off location was appropriate, and whether the recognition of one or more objects was appropriate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Accelerate Labs, LLC
    Inventor: Sanjay K Rao
  • Patent number: 11373254
    Abstract: A method and system of managing a utility system having a plurality of subsystems. A utility management server receives performance measurement data of a subsystem of a first utility system is received, from a first utility monitoring device (UMD). A type of the subsystem and a type of the first UMD is determined. Static rules are applied based on the type of subsystem and the type of UMD. Upon determining that the predetermined condition based on the static rules is not met, identifying a subsystem and its corresponding UMD responsible for a malfunction by retrieving contextual information from the measurements megastore server, analyzing the data from the first UMD and the contextual information, and sending a notification to the UMD having the subsystem that has been identified as being the source of the malfunction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: TUPL, Inc.
    Inventors: Pablo Tapia, Rafael Sanchez Mejias, Juan Jose Escobar
  • Patent number: 11375163
    Abstract: A vehicle inspection device includes a camera mounted to a power folding side-view mirror provided to a vehicle, the camera being configured to switch between an exterior image capture state in which an exterior of the vehicle is within an image capture range and an interior image capture state in which an interior of the vehicle is within the image capture range, while the side-view mirror performs an opening/closing operation between a completely open state and a closed state, and a vehicle processor that executes a vehicle image capture process of capturing an image of the exterior of the vehicle by the camera when the camera has entered the exterior image capture state due to an operation of the side-view mirror, and capturing an image of the interior of the vehicle by the camera when the camera has entered the interior image capture state due to an operation of the side-view mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Terauchi, Naoki Kato, Kayoko Fukasawa, Hiroyuki Tomosugi, Takahiro Iijima
  • Patent number: 11367329
    Abstract: The present application relates to the field of logistics. Disclosed are a monitoring method for a shared recyclable logistics container and a system thereof, capable of timely and accurately finding a recyclable logistics container which may be stolen. In the invention, a recyclable logistics container may be time-shared by a plurality of users; a server stores valid area sets corresponding to each user, each valid area set comprising one or more geographic areas; the server continuously obtains a container identifier and positioning information of the recyclable logistics container; a valid area set corresponding to the current user of the recyclable logistics container is queried according to the container identifier; and if it is determined, according to the positioning information, that the recyclable logistics container camps outside the geographic areas in the found valid area set and the camping duration exceeds a predetermined threshold, an alarm is given.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SHANGHAI HONGYAN RETURNABLE TRANSIT PACKAGINGS CO., LTD
    Inventor: Qingxin Liao
  • Patent number: 11347206
    Abstract: Methods and systems for data collection in a chemical or pharmaceutical production process with haptic feedback and control of data communication are disclosed. A system can include a data collector to collect data from plurality of input channels based on a selected data collection routine, a data storage to store a plurality of collector routes and collected data, wherein the plurality of collector routes each includes a different data collection routine, a data acquisition circuit to interpret the collected data and determine an occurrence of an anomalous condition, a data analysis circuit to analyze the collected data by evaluating a data communication constraint of the monitoring system and adjusting a volume of collected data communicated between the input channels and the data storage, and a haptic user device for generating a haptic stimulation in response to an occurrence of a specified anomalous condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Howard Cella, Gerald William Duffy, Jr., Jeffrey P. McGuckin, Mehul Desai