Patents Assigned to Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11281811
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and device for storing vehicular data. An embodiment of a method for storing vehicular data includes: analyzing importance of received vehicular data to determine a storage level of the vehicular data; acquiring a corresponding key and a corresponding encryption algorithm based on the storage level of the vehicular data; encrypting the vehicular data using the acquired key and the acquired encryption algorithm; and storing encrypted vehicular data in a storage area corresponding to the storage level of the vehicular data. The embodiment may improve the safety of vehicular data by encrypted storage of the data in different levels, effectively prevent important vehicular data from being illegally read or maliciously falsified, and improve the storage efficiency of the vehicular data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mingwei Wang, Peng Yun, Shaohua Zhang
  • Patent number: 11279380
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for detecting and avoiding a collision applied to a vehicle which determines a first path according to a real-time vehicle status. The method can include: S1) predefining a second path according to the real-time vehicle status; S2) determining whether the current first path is at risk of a collision, and determining whether the current second path is at risk of a collision; and S3) controlling the vehicle with an apparatus using a method for avoiding a collision, in a case where the current first path is at risk of a collision and/or the current second path is at risk of a collision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Kai Yang, Hongda Zhang, Wuzhao Zhang, Zhuo Chen, Baisheng Wang
  • Patent number: 11273848
    Abstract: A method, a device and an apparatus for generating a defensive driving strategy and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: detecting a type of each obstacle of a plurality of obstacles in a sensible range of an autonomous vehicle; determining whether there is a collision risk of the autonomous vehicle with the obstacle by using a collision risk detection method corresponding to the type; and determining the defensive driving strategy for the autonomous vehicle when the obstacle has a collision risk with the autonomous vehicle in the sensible range. According to the embodiments, an occurrence probability of a dangerous condition on a road may be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dayang Hao, Changchun Liu, Yaqin Chen, Peng Geng
  • Patent number: 11269324
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for controlling an autonomous vehicle are provided according to the embodiments of the disclosure. The method includes: sending, in response to determining that a pedestrian is in a first target area, behavior prompt information representing prompting the pedestrian to make a corresponding behavior; determining whether a deceleration condition matching the behavior prompt information is satisfied based on acquired behavior information of the pedestrian; and sending control information for reducing a moving speed of the autonomous vehicle, in response to determining that the deceleration condition is satisfied and determining that a speed of the autonomous vehicle is greater than a preset deceleration threshold. According to the embodiments, deceleration control of the autonomous vehicle is achieved based on the response of the pedestrian to the behavior prompt information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mengmeng Tang, Wanqi Chai, Junping Wang, Fan Yang, Xiaohua Yang, Jing Li, Chen Chen, Shi Hu, Xuan Huang, Yan Feng, Wenlong Rao, Haifeng Li, Gao Yu, Ning Yu, Shuang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11255973
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for extracting a lane line, a device, a computer readable-storage medium and a collection entity are provided. The method includes: obtaining a first group of lane lines of a road based on a first image generated from a point cloud collected by a laser radar; obtaining a second group of lane lines of the road based on a second image collected by a camera; and determining a lane line set of the road based on the first group of lane lines and the second group of lane lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lixia Shen, Ruijie Hou, Shiyu Song, Fangfang Dong
  • Patent number: 11257367
    Abstract: Provided are system and method for controlling traffic lights. The system includes a traffic light device and a smart roadside device. The smart roadside device includes a roadside sensing module including: a camera assembly configured to collect information of an image for traffic lights of the traffic light device and a radar configured to acquire first surrounding environment information of a road junction monitored by the smart roadside device, and a roadside processing module configured to determine traffic flow information of a red light lane according to the first surrounding environment information and the information of the image for the traffic lights, determine a duration of a green light according to the traffic flow information, and control a duration displaying the green light in a next cycle of the traffic light device according to the duration of the green light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huo Cao, Xing Hu, Sheng Tao, Haisong Wang
  • Patent number: 11254304
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a control method and apparatus for an autonomous vehicle, a computer device and a storage medium. The current steering wheel angle, vehicle speed and yaw rate are obtained, the current steering wheel angle is corrected based on the first correction deviation coefficient and the second correction deviation coefficient of the previous cycle, the corrected steering wheel angle and the current vehicle speed are input into the preset vehicle dynamic model to obtain the estimated yaw rate, the first yaw rate deviation value between the current yaw rate and the estimated yaw rate is obtained, and processed by the preset closed-loop algorithm to obtain the first correction deviation coefficient and the second correction deviation coefficient of the current cycle, and the target steering wheel angle is corrected, and the vehicle is driven based on the corrected target steering wheel angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wenchuang Qin, Xiapeng Peng, Jiayong Huang, Ke Tang, Qiyang Shao, Xuguang Lv
  • Patent number: 11250702
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and a device for assisting in controlling automatic driving of a vehicle, a medium, and a system. The method for assisting in controlling automatic driving of a vehicle may include: acquiring sensing information related to environment collected by a sensor, the sensor being disposed in the environment and independent of the vehicle; determining an environment sensing result related to the environment by processing the acquired sensing information, the environment sensing result indicating relevant information about a plurality of objects including the vehicle in the environment; and providing the environment sensing result to a vehicle-side control device associated with the vehicle for assisting in controlling a driving behavior of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Tao, Tian Xia, Xing Hu
  • Patent number: 11243086
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and a device for acquiring a map, a device, and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes: acquiring a reference map of an acquisition area; dividing the acquisition area into a plurality of sub-areas based on the reference map; generating a plurality of acquisition tasks corresponding to the plurality of sub-areas, wherein each of the plurality of acquisition tasks is configured to acquire a map of each of the plurality of sub-areas; and assigning each of the plurality of acquisition tasks to an acquisition entity, to enable the acquisition entity to acquire the map of each of the plurality of sub-areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Li Yu, Shiyu Song, Fangfang Dong
  • Patent number: 11227395
    Abstract: A method for determining a motion vector field is provided, comprising: determining an optical flow of a spatial point in a scene according to different frames of images acquired by an image acquisition unit; determining a movement velocity of the spatial point in a coordinate system of the image acquisition unit according to spatial point data; determining a first order derivative of a projection of the spatial point on an image plane according to the spatial point data; and determining a velocity vector of the spatial point according to intrinsic parameters, a rotation matrix in a global coordinate system, a movement velocity, and an angular velocity, of the image acquisition unit, as well as a pose, the optical flow, the movement velocity in the coordinate system of the image acquisition unit, and the first order derivative of the projection on the image plane, of the spatial point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuanfan Xie, Liang Wang
  • Patent number: 11226350
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and device for detecting a speed of an obstacle, a computer device, and a storage medium. The method includes: calculating at least two real-time speeds corresponding to the obstacle by using a multi-frame difference algorithm according to multi-frame data acquired by a sensor in a preset time window; calculating at least two speed statistic values corresponding to the obstacle according to the at least two real-time speeds; mapping each of the at least two speed statistic values to a corresponding static probability according to a mapping relationship between speed statistic values and static probabilities, to obtain at least two static probabilities; and fusing the at least two static probabilities to obtain a fused static probability of the obstacle, and determining the speed of the obstacle according to the fused static probability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kai Cheng
  • Patent number: 11215996
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a device for controlling a vehicle, a device and a storage medium, and relates to the field of unmanned vehicle technologies. The method includes: acquiring a vehicle environment image by an image acquirer during traveling of the vehicle; extracting a static environment image included in the vehicle environment image; obtaining a planned vehicle traveling trajectory by taking the static environment image as an input of a trajectory planning model; and controlling the vehicle to travel according to the planned vehicle traveling trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hao Yu
  • Patent number: 11215983
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a server, a remote control device and a remote control method for an automatic driving vehicle. The method includes: after receiving a remote control request of an automatic driving vehicle, determining a control instruction according to the remote control request, and transmitting the control instruction by using wireless channels corresponding to a plurality of wireless networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jialin Yang
  • Patent number: 11217091
    Abstract: Provided is a smart roadside unit, including: a high-bright camera assembly configured to capture a high-bright image; a low-bright camera assembly configured to capture a low-bright image, in which the high-bright camera assembly and the low-bright camera assembly have a substantially same shooting view; and a controller configured to extract vehicle information from the high-bright image and the low-bright image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Fang, Haisong Wang, Xing Hu, Sheng Tao